Encounters With Tadeusz Kantor

by Miklaszewski,Krzysztof

• ISBN13: 9780415372633
• ISBN10: 0415372631
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-11-10
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

An invaluable collection of documents and discussions of the work of one of the most significant theatre practitioners of the last fifty years. This unique set of reminiscences, written by one of the actors who worked closely with Kantor over a long period of time, ranges from the anecdotal to the theoretical. Kantor's work offers some of the most disconcerting allegories of Modernism and a quintessential expression of the unconscious during a bitter period of human history. Kantor's stern but affectionate guardianship of his troupe of travelling players comes off Miklaszewski's pages with warmth, humanity and humor.

Table of Contents

List of Plates	ix
Introduction to the Series	xi
Acknowledgements	xii
Translator's Preface	xiii
Introduction	1	(4)
The Legislator and the Renovator of Radical Ideas	5	(4)
Towards the Impossible Theatre (Conversation, June 1972)	9	(5)
Tadeusz Kantor's Cloakroom (Film script, 1973--1974)	14	(16)
Lovelies and Dowdies (Critical Commentary, 1974)	30	(4)
Dead Class, or a New Treatise on Mannequins (Conversation, October 1975)	34	(8)
A Gripping Seance: Dead Class	42	(5)
Around the World with Dead Class	47	(21)
Kantor in the British Isles (1976)	48	(4)
In the Eyes of the French (1977)	52	(5)
Shiraz (1977)	57	(2)
New York (1979)	59	(5)
Toga-mura and Tokyo (1982)	64	(4)
Kantor in Opposition to Himself (Conversation, July 1980)	68	(5)
Between Absolute Form and the Revelation of Feeling: Wielopole, Wielopole	73	(9)
On the State of Things, the Avant-garde, Innovation, Luck, Truth, and Success (Conversation, June 1981)	82	(8)
Cricotage under Villon's Banner: Ou Sont les Neiges d'Antan?	90	(10)
The Theatre is Art, First and Foremost (Conversation, November 1983)	100	(10)
Let the Artists Die! (Notes from the year 1985)	110	(10)
I -- The Master: A Documentary on the Making of Kantor's Let the Artists Die! by Krzysztof Miklaszewski (1985--1986)	120	(5)
A Sixteen-minute Pre-premiere Ovation	125	(3)
Did I Help or Did I Hinder? (Conversation, July 1986)	128	(4)
Exegi Monumentum, or The Machine of Love and Death (Description in dialogue form, July 1987)	132	(3)
``. . . Nothing Further . . .'' (Notes from conversations, March 1988)	135	(8)
Between Love and Death (Kantor's Farewell, 15 December 1990)	143	(4)
Afterword: Kantor's Ascension	147	(3)
Postscript: Kantor's Theatre, without Kantor (1999)	150	(5)
Tadeusz Kantor (1915-1990): A Chronicle of his Life and Works	155	(9)
Tadeusz Kantor: World Bibliography	164	(4)
Authors and their Works	168	(2)
Index of Names	170