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the theatre and the plague: everybody knows this is nowhere

Antonin Artaud based his Theater of Cruelty on the basis of reality being the double of theater. Two virtual realities representing individual duality that exist on parallel planes which never intersect. In this sense actors on the stage are not … Continue reading

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everything is oblique in these fearful polite times

For Antonin Artaud, there was a fundamental incompatibility between the individual at his most anti-social or “mad” and humanist liberal democracy which can also be regarded as irrational, illogical and insane.He was unique.He felt that sex represented the evil forces … Continue reading

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mad men: vanity of night’s hallucinations

He had the conviction that demons had taken hold of him, and a fear of sexuality, which he associated with disease and microbes. He believed he was made of glass and breakable, had a fear of noises and identified with … Continue reading

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