This is the main hall of the new Raval Theatre, with a capacity of 195 spectators and an Italian-style layout, featuring a parquet with 150 seats and an amphitheater with 45 additional seats.

The name of the room originates from the desire to honor Tadeusz Kantor, not only to acknowledge his theatrical poetics but also to highlight his firm commitment to theatre as an artistic expression and as part of the collective memory from a critical and unique perspective on the present, always striving to make the invisible visible.

Tadeusz Kantor
Wielopole 1915 – Kraków 1990

Tadeusz Kantor, Polish artist. He was a stage designer, painter, art theorist, and one of the most prominent and revolutionary directors in the history of theatre. His productions, particularly The Dead Class, had a markedly personal touch and unparalleled poetic strength. Kantor’s work, more than three decades after his death, remains influential and an aesthetic and philosophical reference for creators worldwide. Talking about Kantor is to speak of a classic of our time who infused his theatre with a unique and universal character; a total artist who projected his work into infinity.

Revealing what is most secret in the life of the individual,
that which contains within itself the highest value,
what may seem ridiculous, small, miserable in the world.
Art brings this misery to light.
Let it grow.
And let it govern.
This is the role of art.
I will never return here again, 1988