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The following study takes a close look to the work and theatre activity of Tadeusz Kantor, one of the most important directors of the XX century. The paperwork explains the preparation, the exercises and the theory of absence in Kantor’s play and representations. According to Kantor, the body becomes evidence of and witness to present and past existence. There are also similarities among Kantor’s and Brook’s theatre works. The theatre each of them brought forward to the public is an exclamation of life by a survey of memory and by assuming that which could allow there presence, namely, the void. This study demonstrates the importance of this two creators in the development of theatre studies both at a theoretical and a practical level.

Keywords: theatre, Tadeusz Kantor, exercise, theory, representation, body