Polish director Tadeusz Kantor, who died in 1990 at the age of 75, is widely recognized as one of the most important theatre artists of this century. Critics have ranked him with such influential directors as Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, Brecht, and Grotowski. Known in the United States primarily for his visually stunning productions, he is also highly regarded throughout Europe for his theoretically adventurous writings. Michal Kobialka, whom Kantor authorized to translate his work, provides us with the first collection of Kantor's essays in English, together with his analysis of the corpus of Kantor's work, both written and staged.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PREFACE
PART I FURTHER ON, NOTHING ...
Chronology
A. A SELECTION oF TADEUSZ KANTOR'S
ESSAYS AND MANIFESTOS
My Work-My Journey (Excerpts) (1988)
Credo (1942-44)
The Autonomous Theatre (1956/63)
The Informel Theatre (1961)
The Informel Theatre: Definitions (Undated)
The Zero Theatre (1963)
Annexed Reality (1963)
Emballages (1957-65)
Theatre Happening (1967)
The Impossible Theatre (1969-73)
The Theatre of Death (1975)
Reality of the Lowest Rank (1980)
The Work of Art and the Process (1976)
The Situation of an Artist (1977)
Where Are the Snows of Yesteryear? (Cricotage) (1978)
New Theatrical S p a c e . Where
F i c t i o n Appears (1980)
The Room. Maybe a New Phase (1980)
The Infamous Transition from the World of the Dead
into the World of the Living: Fiction and Reality (1980)
Prison (1985)
Refiection(1985)
Memory (1988)
The Real ''I" (1988)
To Save from Oblivion (1988)
Silent Night (Cricotage) (1990)
A Painting (1990)
From the Beginning, in My Credo Was ... (1990)
B. THE MILANO LESSONS (1986)
Foreword
Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
Lesson 4
Lesson 5
Lesson 6
Lesson 7
Lessons 8, 9, 10, and 11
Lesson 12
PART 2 THE QUEST FOR THE SELF/
OTHER:
A CRITICAL STUDY OF TADEUSZ
KANTOR'S THEATRE
The Quest for the Self:
Thresholds and Transformations
The Quest for the Other: Space/Memory
Found Reality
NOTES
WRITINGS BY TADEUSZ KANTOR
SELECTED WRITINGS ABOUT
TADEUSZ KANTOR,
CRICOT 2 THEATRE, AND THEIR
PRODUCTIONS
INDEX
