The theatre and its double : essays / by Antonin Artaud ; translated by Victor Corti.
By: Artaud, Antonin.
Contributor(s): Corti, Victor
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BookSeries: New Paris editions ; 1.Publisher: London : Calder Publications, 2005, c1964Description: 108 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 0714542342; 9780714542348.Uniform titles: Théâtre et son double. English Subject(s): Theater | Performing Arts | Theatre studiesDDC classification: 792 ART Summary: This volume contains Manifestos of the Theatre of Cruelty and definitons of this theatre, underlying impulses of performance, suggestions on a physical training method for actors and actresses and an appreciation of values of Eastern dance drama.
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Translation of: Le Théâtre et son double, originally published in Antonin Artaud: Ouevres completes tome IV, Paris : Editions Gallimard, 1964.
First published in English: Great Britain : Calder & Boyer, 1970.
Reprint of edition first published: France : Association Calder, 1993 ; Great Britain : Calder Publications, 1993
Includes postface by John Calder.
This volume contains Manifestos of the Theatre of Cruelty and definitons of this theatre, underlying impulses of performance, suggestions on a physical training method for actors and actresses and an appreciation of values of Eastern dance drama.
Translated from the French.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
An early associate of the surrealists, Antonin Artaud broke with them to form the "theater of cruelty" in 1932. His goal, set forth in his long essay The Theater and Its Double (1938), was to replace the contemporary theater, with its emphasis on psychology, by a theater of myth that would reintroduce the sacred into modern life.Experiments with drugs, coupled with a long history of psychiatric trouble, led to Artaud's commitment to a mental hospital for nine years. He remains a contemporary heir to the nineteenth-century antiestablishment poets and an inspiration to contemporary theoreticians of the theater.
(Bowker Author Biography)