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""I am the man," wrote Artaud, "who has best charted his inmost self." Antonin Artaud was a great poet who, like Poe, Holderlin, and Nerval, wanted to live in the infinite and asked that the human spirit burn in absolute freedom. To society, he was a madman. Artaud, however, was…
The Theatre and Its Double is a collection of essays detailing Antonin Artaud's radical theories on drama and theatre, which he saw as being stifled by conservatism and lack of experimentation. Containing the famous manifestos of the 'Theatre of Cruelty', the collection analyses…
Antonin Artaud is now recognized as the twentieth century's most radical influence on the theatre and on performance. In this, the most famous of his writings, he redefines the nature and the purpose of drama, what the theatrical reaction of audiences should be - an experience t…
This volume contains Manifestos of the Theatre of Cruelty and definitons of this theatre, underlying impulses of performance, suggestions on a physical training method for actors and actresses and an appreciation of values of Eastern dance drama.
The Theatre and Its Double is a collection of essays detailing Antonin Artaud's radical theories on drama and theatre, which he saw as being stifled by conservatism and lack of experimentation. Containing the famous manifestos of the 'Theatre of Cruelty', the collection analyses…