Paul Allain is Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Kent,
Canterbury. He has worked extensively on Eastern European theatre, including Gardzienice: Polish Theatre in Transition (1997) and the co-edited Cambridge Companion to Chekhov (2000). He also wrote The Art of Stillness: The Theatre Practice of Tadashi Suzuki (2002; revised 2nd edition with DVD, 2009), and co-authored The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance (2006). He has recently led AHRC- and Leverhulme-funded research projects on Grotowski and on actor training in collaboration with the Moscow Art Theatre School. As part of the former, he edited both Grotowski’s Empty Room (2009) and Ludwik Flaszen’s Grotowski & Company (2010).
