Jerzy Grotowski died in 1999 but his influence continues to grow. UNESCO has designated 2009 as the “Year of Grotowski.” We can expect a lot of symposia, performances, publications, and revaluations of the Polish master’s work. For all that, it will be next to impossible to pin Grotowski down. His influence does not rest like that of Brecht in plays frequently performed, in detailed Modelbucher describing particular productions, or in loads of theoretical writing. Nor does Grotowski closely resemble Stanislavsky, a mentor Grotowski acknowledges. In his books, Stanislavsky attempted to chart a systematic and in some ways technical approach to acting.1