Tadeusz Kantor's Centre for Documentation Cricoteka
Former riverside power station wrapped in a table-shaped modern extension, holding a theatre visionary's costumes, mannequins and sketches.
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This guide to Cricoteka in Kraków begins on the night of December eighth, nineteen ninety, when theatre visionary Tadeusz Kantor died hours before his company was due to rehearse a piece called Today Is My Birthday. It traces his Theatre of Death, the productions that paired actors with life-sized mannequins of their younger selves, and the archive he founded himself on Kanonicza Street, built to stay restless rather than embalmed. Look up as you enter: the gallery above the old power-station roofline seems to float.
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