According to Peter Brook, 'no-one, since Stanislavski, has investigated the nature of acting, its phenomenon, its meaning, the nature and science of its mental-physical-emotional processes as deeply and completely as Grotowsi.'
Grotowski was highly devoted to Stanislavski's work, so much so that as a young student in the State Theatre Institute in Poland he made independent research into the work of Stanislavski where he learned to work with physical actions. In his essay, 'Risposta a Stanislavskij' (Answer to Stanislavski), Grotowski states:
'When I was a student in the school of dramatic art, in the faculty for actors, I founded the entire base of my theatrical knowledge on the principles of Stanislavski. As an actor, I was possessed my Stanislavski. I was a fanatic. I retained that it was the key that opens all the doors of creativity. I worked a lot to arrive to know all possible about that which he said or what was said about him.'
However Grotowski did not just copy Stanislavski's work and research, but rather continued where he left off. …
