ABSTRACT
The famous Renato Palazzi, the uncompromising Milanese critic who for a short while was chancellor of the Civica Scuola D'Arte Drammatica, used to give his graduating students — budding actors, directors and scenographers — an additional test. This was to work alongside Kantor: thus giving his students the chance to exercise their creative powers under the tutelage of an artist Palazzi admired enormously. Kantor, for his part, agreed to take on all the pedagogical chores, and to give a series of lectures backed up by practical exercises. That's how the Milan “diploma” performance was born: introduced with the support of an outstanding Polish artist. His title — A Marriage — is also connected with Kantor's vision of the Cricotage Où Sont les Neiges d'Antan?, as indeed are those sequences of Wielopole, Wielopole which had their origin in Italy (work on this production took place in Florence). A Marriage has the subtitle “In the Constructivist and Surrealist Manner”.
