Witkacy, The Madman and the Nun - Kantor, Autonomous Theatre - Cricot 2 Theatre - Krzysztofory Gallery [Krakow 1963] [Zero Theatre].

Theater Program - Witkacy, Wariat i Zakonnica - Kantor, Autonomous Theater - Cricot 2 Theater - Krzysztofory Gallery, Cracow 1963, pp. 18 + 40, dimensions 10 x 29 cm, two brochures - the first containing a text by Tadeusz Kantor Autonomous Theater, the second a description of Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz's drama Wariat i Zakonnica [a play written in 1923] staged by Cricot 2 Theater at Krzysztofory Gallery [premiere June 8, 1963].

Excerpt from description from cricoteka.pl

The Madman and the Nun, 1963 - Zero Theatre

"(...)

NOTES TO THE "ZERO" THEATER.

Let's try to collect the symptoms of life activity with a heavy load of

emotional and content ...

m i l l i o n , z a z a d r o t h e r, m i l l i o n , t h e c h a r a c t e r, t h e c h a r a c t e r, z e m s t a, m o r d e r s t , s a m o b e r s t a t i o n , w o r k , b o h a t e r s t r a c h , s t r a c h , t h e c h e r ....

This not uncommon explosive has served theater and art for a long time to invent literary plots, dramatic actions, complications, conflicts and sensations.

Its properties and tendencies to e x p a n s i o n a n d r e s p o n s i b i l i t i e s determined the type of formal means, obviously effective and of a similar nature:

r e s p o n s i b i l i t i e s ,

c o m m u n i c a t i o n,

f o r m a,

i l u z j a,

n a t u r a l i s t i c with life,

"figurativeness..."

(Tadeusz Kantor, Metamorphoses. Texts about the years 1938 - 1974 , selection and editing by Krzysztof Pleśniarowicz, Cricoteka, Księgarnia Akademicka, Krakow 2000, p.268)