ABSTRACT
On the 9 June 1995, I participated in a meeting of the local public with Ludwik Flaszen, an outstanding intellectual, literary, and theatre critic and, at the late period of his life-path, also stage director. This took place at the premises of Grotowski Centre in Wrocław, Poland. Flaszen was one of the closest friends and collaborators of Jerzy Grotowski in Polish Laboratory Theatre in the period 1959–1978. The 9 June 1995 meeting was the first encounter of Flaszen with his Wrocław friends and fans after the dissolution of Polish Laboratory Theatre in 1984. His answers to the questions, asked first by the scientific and artistic director of Grotowski Centre, Prof. Zbigniew Osiński, and then by people from the audience, were well balanced and wise. The heroes of Flaszen's brilliant mini-narrations were, among others, Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, Schulz, Kantor and, of course, first and foremost Jerzy Grotowski.
