From Poland to Huddersfield via Mexico

In this paper I’m going to talk about the work in Britain of Mexican theatre director, Nicolás Núñez, and about how that work relates to Núñez’s formative experiences with Grotowski, particularly in Theatre of Sources.

In representing Núñez, I’ll be drawing on 16 years of close contact with him, and, more directly, on three main sources: Núñez’s first book, Anthropocosmic Theatre (Núñez:1996); the chapter, The Power of Grotowski in the New Millennium (from Núñez’s second book, Teatro de Alto Riesgo,) (Núñez: 2007), and an interview which I carried out with him earlier this year, also in New York (Middleton:2009).