...Antonin Artaud Copyright © THEATER 1978 1978 Letter to Henri Parisot The so-called Jesus Christ, whose real name was, I house. -Judaea, and Jerusalem in particular, were in- think, Antonin Nalpas, was a magician, just like his fested at that time with magicians and sorcerers who...

... the demon who had, according to his most persistant fears, entered the fetus of Antonin Artaud, the double who toyed with his mind and made his body a place of abomination. As metaphors had substantive exis- tence for him-he didn't complain about feeling fragile but about being glass-so mimetic...

...Michael Cadden Copyright © THEATER 1978 1978 Artaud at the Crossroads Michael Cadden Antonin Artaud: Selected Wdtirgs I edited by Susan Sontag Over the last twenty years in France, Antonin Artaud has emerged translated...

..., as Christ, he is the Son of Man only in relation to a woman who gave him birth. At other times, however, Artaud prefers to affirm that he is self-fabricated: I, Antonin Artaud, am my son, my father, my mother, and myself. It was this search of himself, this making...

... is the confronta- mentioned, even blithely accepted fact that Antonin Artaud spent tion between Artaud and Ferdihe, true poet and dilettante, nine of the last eleven years of his life incarcerated in mental in- genius and envy. stitutions. Six years were spent in four different asylums; the last three...

...Eileen Blumenthal Copyright © THEATER 1978 1978 Theater in New York; Artaud and His Double: Jerry Mayer’s Tuud Show Eileen Blumenthal The Antonin Artaud we see in Jerry thoughts, of “lacking words that corres- sense of rat-in-a-cage confinement. Mayer...

... the Panzerkolonnen rolled over Poland and World War I1 was started. “It isn’t the war- it’s the Apocalypse!” Antonin Artaud excitedly told his doc- tors as they were being rushed to the front. The patient arrived at Ville-Evrard ten months earlier in a straitjacket, but he kept protesting that he had all his...

... . . . Antonin Artaud and Roger Vitrac dreamed these scenes up in close collaboration and performed them with Mlle Josette Lusson. The poses and groupings were directed by Antoinin Artaud; M. Eli Lotar took the photographs and did the montages. The text of the booklet...

... theater Fluxus Peter Handke Antonin Artaud spectatorship surveillance John H. Muse Virtual Theater, Virtual Spectatorship On Jonathan Ball’s Clockfire All Their Words Actors approach the audience, taking their hands, leading each onlooker away to a separate...

...? Will it be Gauguin or some other ghost?” Antonin Artaud Chekhov standing catatonic Amidst The frozen hair of Dachau. It was the vastness in Shakespeare that drove his mind As red as sunflowers, Rampaging through a land of blood. Shh, said Artaud and St. Francis, Old school...

... . . . ready techniques or rules, but to fault Artaud for this is to mis- conceive the spirit and nature of his work; to seek in his writings - Antonin Artaud, The Theatre and Its Double...

... Romanticism - an association which led me to think about, of all people, Antonin Artaud, whose work I will discuss in relation to Benno further on. As Benno stands proudly beside the ecstatically optimistic compositions, the girl runs on and draws a penis in black marker on one...

... (hardcover) $12.95. Urizen Books, N.Y., N.Y., 1977 (paperback) $4.95. Theatre of Images, Plays by Robert Wilson, Richard Foreman, Lee Breuer, Antonin Artaud, edited, and with an introduction by, Susan Sontag...

....” This is what one reads in one of Antonin Artaud’s last which must first be reeducated is called birth.” For Artaud, the writings (Le ThMtre de la cnurute in 84, 1948). And in the same primary concern is not to die in dying, not to let the thieving god text, a little earlier, the theater of cruelty...

.... Orestes carries out Apollo’s orders immediately, unselfconsciously. But Hamlet hesitates. Why? Antonin Artaud To begin with, Orestes belieues in Apollo to an extent that Hamlet does not believe in the ghost. Apollo is a God, a veritable...

... is full of ref- erences to artists (Albrecht Dürer, Francisco Goya), writers (Antonin Artaud, Søren Kierkegaard), and music (ac/dc, the Scorpions). Such references, alongside the objects, form the onstage group’s toolbox for connection and community. Quesne has said that he selected the title...

... emptiness that strongly presupposes a creator. It is the dubbing, whose powerful doxology of the neuter (I think about the neuter invoked by Antonin Artaud) operates in obstetrical terms on the figure, preparing, in fact, the excavation, the advent, the light, the re-creation. Is it the art’s...

.... Antonin Artaud poet 192s Painting by Alfred Landesman, courtesy of Rocco Landesman. 34 ...

... it go away make it go away) and performed upon - a ”clairaudience.” And thus his theater one of whimsy, surprise, delight, attack, cruelty. is Tomorrow the sky is going black. That’s right. Antonin Artaud is indeed the evil genius...

... same year, worked with Antonin Artaud • knowing what it was going to turn out as. I directed Krapp's Last Tape - La Derniere the obsessed, heroic and eventually mad was convinced it was a great thing, and the Bande - in Paris in 1958; it was only after exponent of a Theater of Cruelty - play...