Encounters with Tadeusz Kantor

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 December 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