Krzysztof Pleśniarowicz — Jagiellonian University professor, Head of Department of Contemporary Culture JU, Director of the Cricoteka Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor in Cracow (1994–2000). His publications include: The Theatre of Un-Human Forms (in Polish, 1994, 2023), The Space of Anti-Illusion: Models of Contemporary Theatre (in Polish, 1996, 2020), The Dead Memory Machine. Tadeusz Kantor’s Theatre of Death (in Polish, 1990; in English, 1994, 2004; in Hungarian 2007), critical editions of Tadeusz Kantor’s writings (in Polish, 2000, 2005; in Romanian 2014).