... Copyright © THEATER 1978 1978 The Alfred Jarry Theater: A Portfolio of Photographs In 1926 Artaud founded the Alfred Jarry Theater in collaboration with Roger Vitrac and Robert Aron. The group published a booklet, The Alfred Jarry Theater and Public Hostility...

...- sion of idiotic norms and conventions. Inevitably I think of Roger Vitrac’s Victor, ou Les enfants au pouvoir (1928), in which adult actors are supposed to play children, who in turn play their parents and their parents’ adult friends in a radical caricature of bourgeois decorum and nor- Exercise...

..., just as Jarry, Artaud, and Vitrac did at the turn of the previous century, when clumsy, uneven, absurd, and surreal language was assaulted by critics foaming at the mouths. The next generation in Russia needs its platforms to speak from, just as much as it needs something to trash. Notes...