The first production took place in Madrid, 1629 (See Parker in Calderón de la Barca 1968)
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro. 1968. El príncipe constante, ed. A. A. Parker. Cambridge, University Press (in Spanish)
Also played at the Oxford Playhouse and toured in Egypt.
See the review here [Accessed 2010]
The cast of characters was reduced to seven, played by six actors. The text, in Polish translation by Juliusz Slowacki, was heavily adapted, with cuts and additions made from the original Spanish text; the translation itself was then adapted by Grotowski in production. It was restructured from the original three-act play to a series of seven musical movements (Larson 2004: 23). There had been an earlier Polish production, directed by Juliusz Osterwa, which greatly influenced Grotowski’s production.
Larson, Donald R. 2004. ‘Embodying Transcendence: Grotowski’s The Constant Prince’, Comedia Performance, 1,1, 9-45
Entry written by Kathleen Jeffs. Last updated on 31 January 2012.