...Janice Paran Copyright © THEATER 1978 1978 Marowitz at Rodez Janice Paran Artaud at Rodex, by Charles Marowitz. Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, London, 1977 $4.95 Artaud le Mdmo. Artaud the Madman.’It is a well-known, much- battle lines are clearly drawn: Artaud at Rodez...

... has taken him over. If he is possessed it Rodez, Artaud wavered between the belief that he was the true is with the eternal anguish of all suffering creatures. Christ, and his repudiation of his previous conversion. Artaud was convinced that Dr. Ferdiere’s electric shock treatment had killed...

...- lisher Henri Parisot, both written from the he is in, he drags around, opening a couple lished writings - poems, letters to family asylum at Rodez. Finally, he muses about of the theater doors. As he becomes in- and friends, essays, manifestos, plays...

... as to provide the necessities he lacked. While oile feels that Barrault never perceived Artaud as less than a Seer and more than a slapstick role, even someone more natively compassionate than he would have had difficulty responding to the letter Artaud wrote him from Rodez sanatorium. In it, he...

... was not drama critic contributes to the New York Times. in any way an overresearched subject. At about the same time, Peter Brook and I did a short Theater of Cruelty season. There Artaud at Rodez, Marowitz’s first play, was first...

... that were making cultures collapse in disarray, anarchy, or murderous fury. The way he responded to the various codes he encountered along the way --Indian among the Tarahumaras, Druid among the Gaelics, Evangelical Christian in Rodez, and so forth...

..., Michael, "Artaud at the Crossroads" (Essay), Vol. 9, no. 3, Summer 1978, p. 60 Paran, Janice, "Marowitz at Rodez" (Review), Vol. 9, no. 3, Summer 1978, p. 67 Copeland, Roger, "Brecht, Artaud, and the Hole in the Paper Sky" (Essay...

... “The Road to Rodez;” tauds achievement: “He was not a thinker who could be regarded Hayman’s first chapter is “The Old Man of Fifty.” In both cases, as having produced a coherent body of knowledge; nor was he a the pathos of Artauds final years is allowed to color the considera- doer, a man of action...

... with translation that Artaud made to Rodez. The some severity; “it’s very rude.” The Hatter opened text is thus definitively derailed from the his eyes very wide on hearing this; but all he said Text. was, “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?” Aeschylus > Carroll > Artaud. Still The words...

... with the theme of catharsis. “Not in order to escape Virgin” (written from Rodez, September 1945). from terror and pity, not to purify one’s self of a dangerous passion cf...