Diarmid - Lennox , Macbeth w Toronto

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Hello Eva!

                         "......by the grace of Grace

We will perform in measure, time, and place:

So thanks to all at once and to each one,

Whom we invite to see us crown'd at Scone."

My name is Diarmid John McLauchlan. I had the great fortune to be chosen by your husband for the role of Lennox in his 1984/5 production of ShakeSpear's Scottish play put on by Actor's Lab in Toronto, Canada. I will never forget Zygmunt's dedication to his mentor, teacher, and friend Jerzy Grotowski that he wrote in the printed program: TO WHOM I OWE SO MUCH. I was in my early 30's and remember thinking this seemed perhaps excessive....it was only theatre after all!  25 years later I thank God for having witnessed such courage, humour and conscious humanity. Zygmunt taught me to dance the Dance of Life...Tiger! Tiger! burning bright!

Never half a year passed but I would remember his presence in this world and look forward to somehow, sometime being with him again having a beer and not saying much except perhaps my only Polish word 'wash' which was communicated to me in a Toronto bar one evening as I pointed to a 'moosehead' on the wall!

But now that is not to be. As consolation I have finally found a copy of his Voice and Body Work and thrill to see those final moments of his Dyrygent film: his conducting young LIFE soung and then walking, perfectly, back into the forest. Dare I say that Merlin dreams again? "What do you SEE?" with a subtle chuckle....

                                                                                    .....the Sword is passed on!