Kadysz
Kaddish

Author(s): Piotr Kłoczowski
Subject(s): 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Jan Kott; Tadeusz Kantor; Kaddish; theatre
Summary/Abstract: Jan Kott’s Kaddish: Pages on Tadeusz Kantor is the last book published during his life.Th ese pages on Tadeusz Kantor remain, to this day, one of the most poignant descriptionsof what might be called “the experience of Kantor”. Hidden within them is a fundamentalphilosophical question: what can save the memory of the theatre – the imageor the Logos/Word? What can save Tadeusz Kantor’s Th eatre of Death? Jan Kott’sanswer, hidden in his Kaddish, is as follows: the theatre of Kantor can be saved in its essence, in its meaning, only by the Word, the Logos. Th is is a biblical answer. I wouldlike to begin with Jan Kott. Th ree Poles are spoken of as having left a signifi cant markon the territory of theatre, in the second half of the 20th century: Tadeusz Kantor, JerzyGrotowski and Jan Kott.

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