LMU College of Communication and Fine Arts
Department of Theatre Arts and Dance in association with Arden 2 and Ghost Road Company
Presents

Sacrilegious Rite, Abounding in Sorcery - On Jerzy Grotowski's Laboratory Theatre (Warsaw 1980)
&
Lecture by renowned Polish Theatre Scholar Professor Zbigniew Osinski

Thursday November 19th, 2009 12:00PM
Strub Theatre, Loyola Marymount University

On Thursday November 19th, the LMU Theatre department will present a one-time only event:
A presentation of the film Sacrilegious Rite, Abounding in Sorcery - On Jerzy Grotowski's Laboratory Theatre, directed by Krzysztof Domagalik, and produced by Polish Television (Warsaw 1980), followed by a post-screening lecture by Professor Zbigniew Osinski, a theatre scholar and a Professor at the Department of Polish Philology Department of Warsaw University. The program will begin at 12:00pm and conclude at 2:30pm.

Sacrilegious Rite, Abounding in Sorcery - On Jerzy Grotowski's Laboratory Theatre, consulted by Zbigniew Osinski, is one of the most important documentaries devoted to the work of the Laboratory Theatre. It presents the history of the company since the beginning of the group existence until 1980 through commentary, illustrations such as photographs and fragments of other films, but above all through the speeches of the creators: Jerzy Grotowski, Ludwik Flaszen, Ryszard Cieslak, Zbigniew Cynkutis, Rena Mirecka, and Zygmunt Molik.

Born in 1939 in Poznan, Professor Osinski is the founder and first director of The Centre For Study of Jerzy Grotowski's Work and For Cultural and Theatrical Research, in Wroclaw, Poland, where he was the artistic and scholarly director from 1990 to 2004.

The screening and lecture are free and open to LMU students, faculty, and members of the general public.

No reservations are required.

In the Strub Theatre, Foley Building, Loyola Marymount University,
1 LMU Drive, Los Angeles 90045.
Phone Number for directions to campus: (310) 338- 7588
Contact Department of Theatre Arts: (310) 338- 2837