Artaud's Theatre Of Cruelty

Author: Albert Bermel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408118025
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 155

Book Description
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.

Cruelty and Desire in the Modern Theater

Author: Laurens De Vos
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson
ISBN: 1611470455
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
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.

The Art of Cruelty

Author: Maggie Nelson
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0393343146
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"This is criticism at its best." —Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times Writing in the tradition of Susan Sontag and Elaine Scarry, Maggie Nelson has emerged as one of our foremost cultural critics with this landmark work about representations of cruelty and violence in art. From Sylvia Plath’s poetry to Francis Bacon’s paintings, from the Saw franchise to Yoko Ono’s performance art, Nelson’s nuanced exploration across the artistic landscape ultimately offers a model of how one might balance strong ethical convictions with an equally strong appreciation for work that tests the limits of taste, taboo, and permissibility.

The theater and its double

Author: Antonin Artaud
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780802141392
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 159

Book Description

Heliogabalus

Author: Antonin Artaud
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 190992380X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 101

Book Description
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).

Artaud on Theatre

Author: Antonin Artaud
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
ISBN: 9781566635585
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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.

Collected Works

Author: Antonin Artaud
Publisher: Calder Publications Limited
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 250

Book Description
Drama. Antonin Artaud is one of the two or three most influential innovators of the twentieth centruy, whose theoried, production ideas along with his writings and plays have broght a new poetic impulse and dynamic intensity to the stage, replacing the naturalistic theatre that preceded his own. In this volume of COLLECTED WORK, we see Artaud's early formulations of his theories on theatre in general, and the genesis of the theatre of cruelty. In particular, the volume contains the famous manifestos of the revolutionary Alfred Jarry Theatre, productions plans, notes and critical articles. Also included is a series of articles on literature and the plastic arts, written during the same period. The variety and humour of such a wide range of work certainly constitutes a fertile source for those seeking a new approach to theatre and its allied arts. Translated and with an introduction by Victor Corti.

The Alchemical Actor

Author: Jane Gilmer
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004449426
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 262

Book Description
The Alchemical Actor – Performing the Great Work: Imagining Alchemical Theatre offers an imagination for an alchemical theatre inspired by the directives of Antonin Artaud.

Artaud and His Doubles

Author: Kimberly Jannarone
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472035150
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
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Antonin Artaud

Author: Blake Morris
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780429019838
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
"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 Thâeãatre 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"--