Book, Theatre of Death, O[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. Old worn benches, a pile of dried-out books that are crumbling into dust, a toilet… On the benches, old men whose looks, then gestures of automatons, say only that they still breathe with life.. A finger rises, two follow, three, then a whole forest… Memories of a past. Old people, and then their doubles, the mannequins of the children they were, images of death, the presence of matter… Who is there? Aren't we, aren't we? Human beings? Mannequins more concrete, more real, more alive than them? Powers of fascination in pictures of theatrical invocation! At the same time that his brush paints them, elaborating the scenic reality for the creation of the shows, Kantor specifies the situation, argues and explains himself, polemicizes, defending himself and accusing, in a series of testimonies - manifestos, scores of presentations and happenings, interviews, articles - that clarify his procedure and affirm his originality.. All these elements and operators of theatricality come together in The Theater of Death, which the publisher Perspectiva, in co-edition with Edições SESC SP, is now publishing in its collection Studies. Selected and organized by Denis Bablet, the writings of the notable playwright-dramatist gathered here provide the reader with textual access to the essential stages of Tadeusz Kantor's creative activity and evolution.