A research documentary "Tadeush Kantor Theater" to go online

Iran Theater-The fifth program of the "Paragraph" of the Molavi Theater Center, entitled "Tadeush Kantor Theater", was made available to the interested people in the form of a research film.

A research documentary "Tadeush Kantor Theater"  has been released online on the official Instagram page of Molavi Theater Center and Bayan website of Tehran University .Mahmoud Reza Rahimi (university lecturer and director) and Ramtin Shahbazi (university lecturer and critic) starred in the program.

This documentary was produced by Sadegh Sarvar Alishahi. In this program, different aspects of kantor's theater are examined. Also some performances and interviews  of this prominent contemporary director are included.

Tadeusz Kantor, born 1915 in Wielopole and died in December 1990 in Krakow, was a Polish painter, scene designer and theatre director.

 

Graduating from the Krakow Academy in 1939, Kantor founded the Independent Theatre during the Nazi occupation. He became a professor at Krakow’s Academy of Fine Arts and a director of experimental theatre in Krakow in the years 1942-1944. Following the war, he become known for his avant-garde work in stage design for various Polish theatres.

 

In 1955 Kantor and a group of visual artists formed his own theatre, Cricot 2, starting with The Cuttlefish, a play by the Polish writer/philosopher Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz. In the late fifties, Kantor began to expose widely in other countries, e.g. in Paris, Göteborg, Kassel, Stockholm, New York, Venice.

 

In the 60s, Kantor traveled widely with his theatre becoming known for staging "happenings", passing from "Informal Theatre" to "Zero Theatre"with Witkiewicz' The Madman and the Nun (1963) and "Impossible Theatre". The Water Hen (1969), presented 1972 at Edinburgh, was described as "the least-publicised, most talked-about event at the festival". The same year he stages Witkiewicz' The Shoemakers in Paris