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Theatermachine: Tadeusz Kantor in Context

edited by Magda Romanska and Kathleen Cioffi
contributions by Agnieszka Legutko, Nina Kiraly, Lucja Iwanczewska, Mateusz Borowski, Kris Salata, Debra Caplan, Katarzyna Fazan, Lawrence Switzky, Izumi Ashizawa, Karolina Prykowska-Michalak, Anna Róza Burzynska, Agnieszka Tworek, Anna Królica, Lauren Dubowski, Herta Schmid, Martin Leach, Michal Kobialka, Jacob Micah Juntunen, Grzegorz Niziolek, Klaudiusz Swiecicki, Hans-Thies Lehmann and Tamara Trojanowska

Northwestern University Press, 2020
Cloth: 978-0-8101-4025-7 | Paper: 978-0-8101-4024-0 | eISBN: 978-0-8101-4026-4
Library of Congress Classification PN2859.P66K3684 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification 792.0233092

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

Theatermachine: Tadeusz Kantor in Context is an in-depth, multidisciplinary compendium of essays that examine Kantor’s work through the prism of postmemory and trauma theory and in relation to Polish literature, Jewish culture, and Yiddish theater as well as the Japanese, German, French, Polish, and American avant-garde. Hans-Thies Lehmann’s theory of postdramatic theater and contemporary developments in critical theory—particularly Bill Brown’s thing theory, Bruno Latour’s actor network theory, and posthumanism—provide a previously unavailable vocabulary for discussion of Kantor’s theater.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

MAGDA ROMANSKA is an associate professor in the Department of Performing Arts at Emerson College and the author of Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor.

KATHLEEN CIOFFI is a theater historian who specializes in Polish theater. She is the author of Alternative Theatre in Poland, 1954–1989.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Magda Romanska, Introduction
Kathleen Cioffi, “Kantor: A Short Biography”

Part I: Kantor in Theory
Martin Leach, “Tadeusz Kantor and Modernism”
Michal Kobialka, “Tadeusz Kantor’s Objects: Materialism of the Encounter”
Jacob Micah Juntunen, “Human/Object/Thing: Kantor’s Puppets and Bio-objects”
Grzegorz Niziołek, “Crushed People: Kantor and Trauma Theory”
Klaudiusz Święcicki, “Kantor and the Theatre of Postmemory”
Hans-Thies Lehmann, “Postdramatic Tragedy: Notes on the Theatre of Tadeusz Kantor,”
Magda Romanska, “Kantor and the Posthuman Stage”

Part II: Kantor, Locally
Tamara Trojanowska, “Transgression and Eschatology in the Work of Tadeusz Kantor”
Agnieszka Legutko, “Possessed by the Traumatic Past: Postmemory and S. An-sky’s Dybbuk in Kantor’s Dead Class”
Nina Kiraly, “Tadeusz Kantor and Bruno Schulz”
Łucja Iwanczewska, “Kantor and Witkacy: Childish Games with Death”
Mateusz Borowski, “Witkacy’s and Gombrowicz’s Influence on the Theatre of Tadeusz Kantor”
Kris Salata, “Kantor’s and Grotowski’s Poor Theatre”
Debra Caplan, “Imagining a Future that Never Was: Tadeusz Kantor’s Symbiotic Jewish-Polish Stage”
Kathleen Cioffi, “Kantor and Słobodzianek: The Dead Class and Our Class”
Katarzyna Fazan, “From Tadeusz Kantor’s Anatomy Lesson to the Autopsy in Polish Contemporary Art”

Part III: Kantor, Globally
Lawrence Switzky, “Kantor and Early Twentieth Century European Avant-Garde Directors”
Herda Schmid, “Tadeusz Kantor and the German Bauhaus: From Technological to Metaphysical Utopia.”
Izumi Ashizawa, “Kantor and Japan”
Karolina Prykowska Michalak, “On the Reception of Tadeusz Kantor’s Work in Germany”

Anna Róża Burzynska, “Kantor and the Contemporary European Avant-Garde: Marthaler, Perceval, and Hermanis”

Agnieszka Tworek, “Kantor and the Contemporary French Avant-Garde”

Anna Królica, “Kantor, Pina Bausch, and Dance Theatre”
Lauren Dubowski, “Kantor and the American Avant-Garde”

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