Jan Kott meets Jerzy Grotowski: a theatre critic, who has achieved in his work the merging of the interpretive and the creative acts, encounters the guru, as Kott describes him, whose life has been spent breaking down other boundaries – between ritual and theatre, between theatre and life itself. Both the original Theatre Quarterly and NTQ have been fortunate in publishing regular contributions from Jan Kott, and in his long-standing role as one of our advisory editors. Grotowski we have observed, even criticized, from a greater distance. Here, Jan Kott narrows the gap.