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Artaud

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Artaud
Antonin ([~@]t%n[~E]). 1896--1948, French stage director and dramatist, whose concept of the theatre of cruelty is expounded in Manifeste du théâtre de la cruauté (1932) and Le Théâtre et son double (1938)


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Situating us in the realm of difference, in the gap, we are now exposed to the open system, an idea best articulated by Antonin Artaud in his play To Have Done with the Judgement of God (1947): "What makes it serious/is that we know/that after the order/of this world/there is another.
JJ) Antonin Artaud - Self-Portrait (1946), Portrait of Jany de Ruy (1947) Better known for his Theatre of Cruelty manifestos and a lifetime's poetic railing against the evil spirits of mediocrity, Artaud, at the very end of his life, created some of the most incisive portrait drawings of the 20th century.
When I was here in the 70s we looked at Becket and Artaud, theatre of the absurd and theatre of cruelty.
 
 
 
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