The Theatre of Cruelty has been created in order to restore to the theatre a passionate and convulsive conception of life, and it is in this sense of violent rigour and extreme condensation of scenic elements that the cruelty on which it is based must be understood. This cruelty, which will be bloody when necessary but not systematically so, can thus be identified with a kind of severe moral purity which is not afraid to pay life the price it must be paid.
Those who live, live off the dead. - Antonin Artaud
Those who live, live off the dead.
- 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… - 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…
The actor is an athlete of the heart. - Antonin Artaud
The actor is an athlete of the heart.
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.
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…
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.
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…
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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