From: The New Leader | Date: October 21, 1985| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1985 American Labor Conference on International Affairs. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

HAPPILY, The return of Tadeusz Kantor's Polish company, Cricot 2, for a limited stay at Ellen Stewart's La Mama saved the much misused term "avant-garde" from becoming utterly meaningless--or abhorrent--in the theater this season. Born in Cracow and faithful to its hometown, although probably more at home now in Italy, Germany or France, the superb ensemble gave us a little surrealist masterpiece called Wielopole Wielpole three years ago. The English title of the recent work, first shown in Nuremberg as an homage to a 15th-century sculptor, is Let the Artists die.

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