Author : Antonin Artaud
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,36 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781566635585
This revised and updated edition contains all of Artaud's key writings on theatre and cinema from 1921 to his death in 1948, including new selections never before in English. Artaud's ideas have inspired the work of Genet, Arrabal, The Living Theatre, Grotowski, Brook, and most of the experimental drama and performance work of recent decades. One of the great daring mapmakers of consciousness in extremis.-Susan Sontag.
Author : Albert Bermel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 22,79 MB
Release : 2014-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1408118025
The definitive guide to the life and work of Antonin Artaud Antonin Artaud's theatre of cruelty is one of the most vital forces in world theatre, yet the concept is one of the most frequently misunderstood. In this incisive study, Albert Bermel looks closely at Artaud's work as a playwright, director, actor, designer, producer and critic, and provides a fresh insight into his ideas, innovations and, above all, his writings. Tracing the theatre of cruelty's origins in earlier dramatic conventions, tribal rituals of cleansing, transfiguration and exaltation, and in related arts such as film and dance, Bermel examines each of Artaud's six plays for form and meaning, as well as surveying the application of Artaud's theories and techniques to the international theatre of recent years.
Author : Antonin Artaud
Publisher :
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 42,39 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Theater
ISBN : 9780802141392
Author : Laurens De Vos
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 23,48 MB
Release : 2011-04-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1611470455
Departing from a refreshing look at the ideas of Antonin Artaud, this book provides a thorough analysis of how both Sarah Kane and Samuel Beckett are indebted to his legacy. In juxtaposing these playwrights, De Vos minutely points out how both in their own way struggle with coming to terms with Artaud. A key concept in Lacanian psychoanalytic theories, desire lies at the root of the Theatre of Cruelty; Kane and Beckett prove that desire and cruelty are inextricably linked to one another, but that they appear in radically different disguises. Relying on Kane and Beckett, this book not only sheds a light on the precise intentions behind Artaud's project, it also maps out the structural parallels and dichotomies between the Theatre of Cruelty and the literary genre of tragedy.
Author : Jane Gilmer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 28,2 MB
Release : 2021-05-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004449426
The Alchemical Actor – Performing the Great Work: Imagining Alchemical Theatre offers an imagination for an alchemical theatre inspired by the directives of Antonin Artaud.
Author : Kimberly Jannarone
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,81 MB
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472035150
DIVA radical re-thinking of one of the most canonized figures in theater history, theory, and practice/div
Author : Antonin Artaud
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 42,16 MB
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 190992380X
Antonin Artaud’s novelised biography of the 3rd-century Roman Emperor Heliogabalus is simultaneously his most accessible and his most extreme book. Written in 1933, at the time when Artaud was preparing to stage his legendary Theatre of Cruelty, HELIOGABALUS is a powerful concoction of sexual excess, self-deification and terminal violence. Reflecting its author’s preoccupations of the time with the occult, magic, Satan, and a range of esoteric religions, the book shows Artaud at his most lucid as he assembles an entire world-view from raw material of insanity, sexual obsession and anger. Artaud arranges his account of Heliogabalus’s reign around the breaking of corporeal borders and the expulsion of body fluids, often inventing incidents from the Emperor’s life in order to make more explicit his own passionate denunciations of modern existence. No reader of this, Artaud’s most inflammatory work – translated into English here for the very first time – will emerge unscathed from the experience. Translated by Alexis Lykiard and with an introduction by Stephen Barber (author and cultural historian).
Author : Blake Morris
Publisher : Routledge Performance Practiti
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,27 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780367029791
"Routledge Performance Practitioners is a series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the last century. Each volume explains the background to and the work of one of the major influences on twentieth- and twenty-first-century performance. Antonin Artaud was an active theatre maker and theorist whose ideas reshaped contemporary approaches to performance. This is the first book to combine: an overview of Artaud's life with a focus on his work as an actor and director an analysis of his key theories, including the Theatre of Cruelty and the double a consideration of his work as a director at the Théâtre Alfred Jarry, and his production of Strindberg's A Dream Play a series of practical exercises to develop an approach to theatre based on Artaud's key ideas. As a first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners are unbeatable value for today's student"--
Author : Antonin Artaud
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,58 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Translated by Clayton Eschleman A collection of writings ranging from cogent theoretical works to scatological glossolalia written during and after Artaud's incarceration in an aslum at Rodez creating one of the most powerful outpourings ever recorded.
Author : Antonin Artaud
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 12,57 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780802150301
A collection of manifestos originally published in 1938, in which the French artist and philosopher attacks conventional assumptions about the drama, and calls for the influx of irrational material - based on dreams, religion, and emotion - in order to make the theater vital for modern audiences.
