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The Sorceror’s Assistant
After his Mexican adventure, Antonin Artaud longed to visit other cultures that still believed in magic. A Dutch surrealist had given him an ancient cane with thirteen knots, and Artaud convinced himself that the magic cane had belonged to Saint-Patrick. … Continue reading →
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Tagged Andre Breton, Andre Gide, Antonin Artaud, Doctor Ferdiere, Georges Braque, Gérard de Nerval, Iggy Pop, Jean Dubuffet, Jean Louis Barrault, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Maria Levitsky, Pablo Picasso, Raymond Vonquiel, Robert Desnos, Roger Blin, Stephen Barber, Susan Sontag, The Stooges, Uri Hertz, Van Gogh, Vincent Van Gogh
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in search of magic: a different route to ecstasy
A route to ecstasy that began by a descent into the demonic. A negative utopia without free will where freedom was attained through an absence of will. … His 1935 production of Cenci was poorly received. Seventeen performances in a … Continue reading →
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Tagged Albert Camus, Alfred Jarry, Anthony Burgess, Antonin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, grotowski, Hieronymous Bosch, Jean Dubuffet, Jean Paul Sartre, Jean Paulhan, Luc Sante, Stephen Barber, Susan Sontag
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magic and the fluctuating center
Like a religion it gave birth to several ideal sects. This was precisely because Antonin Artaud’s Theatre of Cruelty was a theoretical, ideal theatre that was never meant to be staged, and Artaud never bothered to explain how to obtain … Continue reading →
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Tagged Antonin Artaud, Felix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, Jean Genet, Jim Morrison, joseph chaikin, Luc Sante, peter brook, sam shepard, spalding gray, Stephen Barber, Susan Sontag
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theatre and its double: between a whisper and a scream
Madness, disruptive violence and liberating sexuality. Madness as an alternative to a sanity defined and identified by its own repressiveness. The double, as a magical agent, intangible and unseizable of which the theatre through its forms, is a figuration on … Continue reading →
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Tagged albert bermel, Antonin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, Brecht, colette allendy, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jean Paulham, Michel Foucault, Roger Vitrac, Stephen Barber
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