Mickiewicz jako „przyrząd do grania”. Przypadek Jerzego Grotowskiego

The subject of reflection in the article is a special way of reading the theatrical work of Mickiewicz by Jerzy Grotowski. The creator of the Laboratory Theater, seen here primarily as a cultural philosopher, builds his anthropological concepts, among others through mediation with romantic culture. The way he «uses» the texts of his great predecessors, the self-identifying type of reading works by Mickiewicz or Slowacki, argues that Grotowski did not want to stage a romantic text, but to «pull» from it (also in a metaphorical sense) what it seemed to him useful and inspirational – thoughts, scenes, situations and build from them the art he needs to exist and support the understanding of his own existence. Paradoxically, this subjective way of reading brought Grotowski closer to the reading that the romantics themselves did.