The second – after “The Dead Class” – performance of Tadeusz Kantor’s Theatre of Death refers back to his childhood spent in a small town in eastern Poland. In the play, the past and traces of memory exist in the…
Tadeusz Kantor’s final and career-crowning performance “Today Is My Birthday” is interpreted as his “testament”. The artist died a few hours afer the last dress rehearsal for this play. The TV recording becomes the symbol of the Cricot 2 creator’s…
“The film is a recording of the initial performance of The Dead Class, a seance by Tadeusz Kantor, expressed through the cinematic language. As far as the filmed version of the play is concerned, the choise of takes, frame composition and…
The world première of this performance took place on 2 June 1985 in Alte Giesseri Kabelmetall in Nuremberg. Nearly half a year later the Polish viewers could see “Let the Artists Die” in Warsaw and Cracow. The play is initially…
The performance was recorded between 22 and 24 February 1990 for Television Theatre during the Cricot 2 guest performances in the “Stodoła” Students’ Club in Warsaw organized by Teatr Rzeczypospolitej. The critics considered the play to be Tadeusz Kantor’s artistic…
1. “Tadeusz Kantor’s Mannequins” – a personal documentary on Tadeusz Kantor’s painting, objects and his theatre. It includes short fragments of archival recordings of Cricot 2 performances and photographs from rehearsals. It also shows Kantor working on the objects. Apart…
