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This essay delves into the interpretation of the text taken by the theater director Jerzy Grotowski and his ensemble, Laboratory Theatre, in their staging of Apocalypsis cum figuris. Grotowski asserts that theater is essentially an encounter. Encounter is deeply embedded with the structure of theater itself. Moreover, it can be considered as a realm wherein theater texts are tested through real life. Accordingly, Apocalypsis cum figuris can be considered as an encounter between fictional reality of the Gospels and lived reality. This essay conceives encounter as continuity of history. The concept of continuity of history that I posit in this essay is explained as relying on Alain Badiou’s text, Theses on Theater, wherein he explores how a fictional reality can be authentically presented on a stage without straying significantly from the original text. Exploring the production of Apocalypsis cum figuris and benefiting Badiou’s first, fourth and fifth thesis on theater, this essay tries to expose what is art of theater about, when it goes beyond pure fiction.

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