The article presents the text of a speech delivered on the occasion of the Honorary Doctorate bestowed on Eugenio Barba by the Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno, Czech Republic on May 12, 2017. Topics of the speech included theater education, the growth of the Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium/Odin Teatret since its creation in 1964, and the changes in the theatre's topography.