Artaud sought to remove aesthetic distance, bringing the audience into direct contact with the dangers of life. By turning theatre into a place where the spectator is exposed rather than protected, Artaud was committing an act of cruelty upon them.
Those who live, live off the dead. - Antonin Artaud
Those who live, live off the dead.
- Antonin Artaud
To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater. - Antonin Artaud
To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.
Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world… - Antonin Artaud
Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world…
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to th… - Antonin Artaud
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to th…
Artaud sought to remove aesthetic distance, bringing the audience into direct contact with the dangers of life. By turning theatre into a place where… - Antonin Artaud
Artaud sought to remove aesthetic distance, bringing the audience into direct contact with the dangers of life. By turning theatre into a place where…
The actor is an athlete of the heart. - Antonin Artaud
The actor is an athlete of the heart.
Theater of Cruelty means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of performance, it is not the cruelty we can exerci… - Antonin Artaud
Theater of Cruelty means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of performance, it is not the cruelty we can exerci…
I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws. - Antonin Artaud
I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death. - Antonin Artaud
There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.
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