The final performance took place in Wrocław on 11 May 1980.

                           Apocalypsis cum figuris

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The final performance took place in Wrocław on 11 May 1980. Although for the vast majority of witnesses, watching Apocalypsis cum Figuris was a harrowing experience which changed not only their concepts of theatre, but indeed their lives – there was also a not insignificant number of critics and spectators who considered the performance blasphemous and menacing. These were primarily, although not only, people connected to the Catholic Church (including Zbigniew Raszewski and Andrzej Kijowski). The most notorious example of criticism from this milieu was a fragment of a sermon pronounced during celebrations of St. Stanisław on 8 May 1976 at the Skałka sanctuary in Kraków by the primate of the Catholic Church in Poland, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński. He considered Apocalypsis cum Figuris one of the works of art that were demoralising the nation and destroying its ethical spine to the same extent as drinking. Among the many descriptions ofApocalypsis, Grotowski held in the highest esteem those by Konstanty Puzyna, who interpreted the piece as type of blasphemous ‘return of Christ’. Noteworthy, too, are Małgorzata Dzieduszycka’s detailed textual reconstruction of the performance and Jennifer Kumiega’s description. We get some idea of the work thanks to numerous photographs, sound recordings and also a film version directed by Ermanno Olmi for Italian television in 1979. Outside the theatre’s home, the performance was presented in London (18–22 September 1969), New York (18–26 November and 10–15 December 1969), Holstebro (26 August – 12 September 1971), Warsaw 22 September – 10 October 1971, Munich (22 August – 4 September 1972), Philadelphia (10–25 September 1973), Paris (12–18 November 1973), Sydney (4 April – 18 May 1974), Venice (as part of the Biennale, 27–29 September, 3–5 October, 9–12 October, 15–17 October, 20–22 October, 25–27 October 1975), Gdańsk (6–18 October 1978), Milan (27, 28, 31 January, 1, 4, 5 February 1979), Pontedera (24–25 and 29–30 June 1979), Rome (4–7 December 1979), and Genoa (18–20, 22 and 23 January). As part of the Pół wieku po Reducie (Half a century after Reduta) project, Apocalypsis was presented in Lublin (16–17 October 1979), Łódź (20–22 October 1979), Rawicz (2 March 1980), Poznań (8–10 March 1980), Toruń (12–14 March 1980) and Tarnobrzeg (21–22 March 1980).