The Stars and The Stairs
An Old Russian proverb says: "If you go to your porch, look up at the sky, and jump to the stars, you will just land in the mud."
The stars are those things we dream of, we envisage and we hope to achieve; both Grotowski and Meyerhold had their theatrical vision, their ideals of what an actor should possess with regards to technical and psychological properties-all these embedded amongst the stars. Yet, they made one thing which characterizes their greatness as theatre makers: they constructed pedagogy. They didn't jump to the stars, they constructed the stairs. …
