CONTENTS

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