Człowiek i przedmiot w Kantorowskich przestrzeniach
Man and Object in Kantor’s Spaces

Summary/Abstract: The author deals with the meaning and mutual interactions of space, object, and actor in the theatre of Tadeusz Kantor. The stage space of the most celebrated, later spectacles shown by the Cricot 2 Theatre and constructed according to the principle of evoking the artist’s recollections seems to be predominantly extremely private and outright intimate. It turns out, however, that into this almost idyllic surrounding the artist introduced increasingly new different elements borrowed not only from his life. In Kantor’s dramatic suspense that which is private is connected with that which is official and public. The artist confronted the biography of an individual with selected historical events or Bible stories. In creating such suspense an essential role is played by objects, which on the stage of his theatre coexist almost on par with the actors and together create ambiguous, universal symbols. Such coexistence would be impossible without Kantor’s years-long artistic experiments. Almost from the onset of his oeuvre he made conspicuous use of all possible interactions between the live actor and the inanimate object. The author of this article describes assorted variants of such dependencies.

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