10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THEATRE OF CRUELTY»
Discover the use of
theatre of cruelty in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
theatre of cruelty and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
"The Sleeping Heart", "The Theatre of Cruelty", "The Lovers", and "To Chandra from Surya" filter autobiographical fragments through the dream world, probing the depth of the human psyche.
Marc Tessier, Alexandre Lafleur, 1997
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Antonin Artaud: A Critical Reader
6 Jacques Derrida From 'The theatre of cruelty and the closure of representation'
8 Derrida's essays are all close readings of Artaud's texts, though, of course, they
are tied to some of Derrida's favourite themes. This earlier piece appeared ...
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Chapters from the History
of Stage
Cruelty
As far as Foreman's view of the function of the actor is concerned, it very much
resembles Artaud's definition of the actor's role in the first manifesto on the
Theatre of Cruelty: "The actor is both a prime factor, since the show's success
depends ...
Günter Ahrends, Hans-Jürgen Diller, 1994
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The French Connections
of Jacques Derrida
Jellicoe, and Peter Brook, to name but a few, all experimented with Artaud's "
theatre of cruelty."3 Derrida celebrates Artaud's theatre with enthusiasm in his
essay "The Theater of Cruelty and the Closure of Representation," in which he
argues ...
Julian Wolfreys, John Brannigan, Ruth Robbins, 1999
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The Making
of Theatre History
Artaud would attack the audience's central nervous system and go directly at the
collective subconscious. His Theatre of Cruelty would be aesthetic shock therapy
involving moral cruelty — first cleansing, then transfiguring, and finally exalting ...
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McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia
of World Drama: An International ...
The works in this literary current might best be described as pre-absurdist
tragicomedies. theatre of cruelty As conceived in a series of essays by the French
writer and director Antonin Artaud (1896-1948), the theatre of cruelty aimed at ...
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History
of European Drama and
Theatre
Artaud's concept of a 'theatre of cruelty' was most closely achieved in his
production of Les Cenci (after Shelley's drama and Stendhal's chronicle), which
had its premiere on 7 May 1935 at the Theatre des Folies Wagram. For this
production, a ...
Erika Fischer-Lichte, 2002
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Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 2, Symbolism, ...
From the beginning Artaud broke so decisively with realism that he managed to
alarm his teacher. In his Reflexions sur le theatre, Barrault tells the story of the
time when Artaud was playing the Emperor Charlemagne, Theatre of cruelty:
Artaud ...
Marowitz, 'Notes on the Theatre of Cruelty' Either we restore all the arts to a
central attitude and necessity, finding an analogy between a gesture made in
painting and the theatre and a gesture made by lava in a volcanic explosion, or
we must ...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Tragedy
The Theatre of Cruelty, which Artaud was developing when he wrote these
remarks, was driven by his demand for theatre which was physical and which
would 'shock' an audience into reflection and 'understanding'. Contrary to popular
belief, ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THEATRE OF CRUELTY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
theatre of cruelty is used in the context of the following news items.
Henrik Ibsen's Unfinished Work to Be Performed in Oslo Opera
Grusomhetens Teater (The Theatre of Cruelty) perform their critically acclaimed version of Henrik Ibsen's unfinished work, Svanhild at the Norwegian Opera and ... «The Nordic Page, Jul 15»
2015 Capital Fringe Preview #29: 'Blind Pug Arts Collective …
Atonin Artaud, founder of the “Theatre of Cruelty” and godfather of many of the more disturbing theatrical experiments of the past half-century, once wrote: “The ... «DC Metro Theater Arts, Jul 15»
Indonesia executions: Amnesty International condemns 'theatre of …
"The world has watched on as this theatre of cruelty played out, with this most tragic of endings. It did not have to come to this. The death penalty is never the ... «The Independent, Apr 15»
From Thomas More to Isis, humanity is on trial in the theatre of cruelty
Both then and now, death by burning was a staged event, deliberately public, a theatre of cruelty designed for political/religious instruction. In his book on ... «The Guardian, Feb 15»
Theatre of the mind
Artaud invented the “theatre of cruelty” that Mr Brook famously brought to an RSC production of Peter Weiss's "Marat/Sade" in the mid-1960s; and Grotowski, ... «The Economist, Jun 14»
Charles Marowitz - obituary
His collaborations with Brook on RSC productions of King Lear, Peter Weiss's Marat/Sade and Jean Genet's The Screens led, in 1964, to a “Theatre of Cruelty” ... «Telegraph.co.uk, May 14»
Reviewed: Pluto at Forum Theatre
Tonight and tomorrow are the final days of Forum Theatre's run of Los ... Artaud's (by definition unachievable) Theatre of Cruelty, which is named not for literal, ... «DCist.com, Mar 14»
1Xtra DJ turned theatre director Matthew Xia: Apartheid drama must …
'Theatre should grab you by the scruff of your neck and drag you in,' says director ... which drew a link between Jean Genet's hyped-up theatre of cruelty and the ... «Metro, Feb 14»
Theatre of Cruelty: Golovkin hammers Macklin in Mashantucket
Boxing, after all, is mostly theatre - and Golovkin's style is suitably cruel, as Matthew Macklin unfortunately found out, to justify a future role as one of the sport's ... «Bad Left Hook, Jun 13»
Poppy Bullard reviews Antonin Artaud's resounding legacy in …
The Theatre of Cruelty's advantage as a stylistic genre is that it allows pre-existing existing plays to be considered in a new, and often more challenging, context, ... «Nouse, Mar 13»
