Akropolis was relatively better received in Poland than Grotowski's other productions. However, it generated as much discussion and controversy as his other shows. At a symposium to commemorate Wyspiański's 100th birthday in 1969, organized by Jagiellonian University, there was a lone suggestion that Grotowski's staging of Akropolis was the most successful production of any of Wyspiański's dramas. However, most critics voiced their discomfort at the production. In his program notes for the production, Flaszen (1962) points out that Grotowski did not add any new lines to the play but merely stripped it to the bare bones of its poetics. Grotowski did make a drastic change in its staging, however, moving the play from Wawel Cathedral to an Auschwitz crematorium. Summarizing the Polish response to this transposition, Konstantyn Puzyna writes: “Like Schiller, Grotowski connects romantic tradition with the twentieth-century avant-garde. This connection was so shocking at that time that it was not easily accepted or understood. […] Grotowski's attempt to profane the two ‘national sacrums seemed particularly sacrilegious.’” In response to Puzyna, Tadeusz Kudliński firmly questions the alternatives: