Encounters with Tadeusz Kantor / Krzysztof Miklaszewski ; edited and translated by George Hyde.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miklaszewski, Krzysztof, author.

Contributor:

Hyde, G. M. (George M.), 1941-

Series:

Routledge Harwood Polish and East European theatre archive ; v. 8.

Routledge Harwood Polish and East European theatre archive ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kantor, Tadeusz, 1915-1990--Criticism and interpretation.

Kantor, Tadeusz.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (189 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An invaluable collection of documents and discussions of the work of one of the most significant theatre practitioners of the last fifty years.<BR>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

Contents:

Cover ; Encounters With Tadeusz Kantor; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents ; List of Plates; Introduction to the Series; Acknowledgements; Translator's Preface; Introduction; 1 The Legislator and the Renovator of Radical Ideas; 2 Towards the Impossible Theatre (Conversation, June 1972); 3 Tadeusz Kantor's Cloakroom (Film script, 1973-1974); 4 Lovelies and Dowdies (Critical Commentary, 1974); 5 Dead Class, or a New Treatise on Mannequins (Conversation, October 1975); 6 A Gripping Séance: Dead Class; 7 Around the World with Dead Class; Kantor in the British Isles (1976)

In the Eyes of the French (1977)Shiraz (1977); New York (1979); Toga-mura and Tokyo (1982); 8 Kantor in Opposition to Himself (Conversation, July 1980); 9 Between Absolute Form and the Revelation of Feeling: Wielopole, Wielopole; 10 On the State of Things, the Avant-garde, Innovation, Luck, Truth, and Success (Conversation, June 1981); 11 Cricotage under Villon's Banner: Où Sont les Neiges d'Antan?; 12 The Theatre is Art, First and Foremost (Conversation, November 1983); 13 Let the Artists Die! (Notes from the year 1985)

14 I - The Master: A Documentary on the Making of Kantor's Let the Artists Die! by Krzysztof Miklaszewski (1985-1986)15 A Sixteen-minute Pre-première Ovation; 16 Did I Help or Did I Hinder? (Conversation, July 1986); 17 Exegi Monumentum, or The Machine of Love and Death (Description in dialogue form, July 1987); 18 ". . . Nothing Further . . ." (Notes from conversations, March 1988); 19 Between Love and Death (Kantor's Farewell, 15 December 1990); Afterword: Kantor's Ascension; Postscript: Kantor's Theatre, without Kantor (1999); Tadeusz Kantor (1915-1990): A Chronicle of his Life and Works

Tadeusz Kantor: World BibliographyAuthors and their Works; Index of Names

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [164]-167) and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-136-46613-4

0-415-37263-1

1-315-01498-X

1-136-46606-1

9781315014982

OCLC:

870591159