2007-12-05 20:20:41 · 3 answers · asked by CP 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
It's true that he went insane (all that electroshock therapy and Mexican peyote will help do that to you), but you can hardly dismiss his theories with that offhand remark. His writings have done more to shape the post-war avant-garde theatre than anyone else's.
And he despised the "established" theatre; he wasn't jealous.
A quote from "The Theatre and Its Double":
"We have lost a certain idea of theatre. ...one understands why the elite have turned away from it or why the masses go to the cinema, music-hall and circus to find violent gratification whose intention does not disappoint them.
Our sensibility has reached the point where we surely need theatre that wakes us up heart and nerves.
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In the anguished, catastrophic times we live in, we feel an urgent need for theatre that is not overshadowed by events, but arouses deep echoes within us and rises above our unsettled period.
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If theatre wants to find itself needed once more, it must present everything in love, crime, war and madness.
2007-12-07 02:05:53 · answer #1 · answered by Beckett 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
he was jealous of the theatre establishment, he was insane.
2007-12-06 19:22:27 · answer #2 · answered by Theatre Doc 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
http://www.theatrehistory.com/french/artaud001.html
This site might help you.
2007-12-06 09:57:29 · answer #3 · answered by mamabee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋