Research Catalog

Title

Artaud on theatre / edited by Claude Schumacher with Brian Singleton.

Author

Artaud, Antonin, 1896-1948

Publication

• Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, [2004]
• ©2001

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Details

Additional Authors

• Schumacher, Claude
• Singleton, Brian, 1960-

Uniform Title

Works. Selections. English

Alternative Title

Works.

Subject

• Theater
• Experimental theater
• Drama > 20th century > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Originally published: London : Methuen, 1989.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-237) and index.

Contents

• Antonin Artaud : a biographical outline -- Artaud's artistic activities -- Artaud and theatre -- Artaud and madness -- Artaud, east and west -- pt. 1. Early writings (Paris 1921-5) -- Charles Dullin's L'Atelier -- To Max Jacob -- To Mademoiselle Yvonne Gilles -- L'Atelier theatre -- 'Six characters in search of an author' -- Maurice Maeterlinck -- evolution of set design -- To the director of the Comédie-Francaise -- Letter to the chancellors of the European universities -- 'The spurt of blood' -- umbilical limbo -- All writing is filth -- pt. 2. Alfred Jarry Theatre (1926-30) -- Alfred Jarry Theatre (1926-7) -- Manifesto for an abortive theatre -- To Jean Paulhan -- Alfred Jarry Theatre (1928) -- To Génica Athanasiou -- 'A dream play' by Strindberg -- Alfred Jarry Theatre (1929) -- Alfred Jarry Theatre and public hostility (1930) -- To Roger Vitrac -- Three letters to Louis Jouvet -- pt. 3. Cinema (1926-32) -- Cinema and reality -- 'The shell and the Clergyman' -- To Madame Yvonne Allendy -- To Rene Daumal -- To Jean Paulhan -- pt. 4. NRF theatre project (1931-3) -- To Jean-Richard Bloch -- To Marcel Dalio -- theatre I'm about to set up -- To Andre Gide -- Three letters to Jean Paulhan -- Letter to 'Comoedia' -- To a friend -- To Natalie Clifford Barney -- To Orane Demazis -- 'The conquest of Mexico' -- pt. 5. 'The theatre and its double' (1931-7) -- 'The theatre and its double' -- On the Balinese Theatre -- 'Mise en scène' and metaphysics -- Alchemist Theatre -- theatre of cruelty -- first manifesto -- Letters on cruelty -- Theatre and cruelty -- Letters on language -- Theatre and the plague -- No more masterpieces -- Theatre and poetry -- Oriental and western theatre -- Theatre is first ritualistic and magical ... -- affective athleticism -- Theatre and culture.
• Theatre and the gods -- Medea without fire -- pt. 6. 'The Cenci' (1935) -- Cenci -- To Andre Gide -- 'The Cenci' -- tragedy 'The Cenci' at the Folies-Wagram -- After 'The Cenci' -- To Jean-Louis Barrault -- 'Around a mother' -- pt. 7. Religion and sexuality (Rodez 1943-6) -- Artaud, religion and sexuality -- To Anne Manson -- To Andre Breton -- To Frederic Delanglade -- To Doctor J. Latrémolière -- To Sonia Mossé -- To Roger Blin -- pt. 8. Return to Paris (1946-8) -- Theatre and anatomy -- To Peter Watson -- 'Tête-à-tête with Antonin Artaud' -- Letters to Andre Breton -- Deranging the actor -- Theatre and science -- To put an end to the judgement of God -- question arises of ... -- To Wladimir Porché, director of broadcasting -- To René Guilly -- To Paule Thévenin -- Who am I? / Qui suis-je?

Call Number

MWE 22-4678

ISBN

• 1566635586
• 9781566635585

LCCN

2003070126

OCLC

54006719

Author

Artaud, Antonin, 1896-1948, author.

Title

Artaud on theatre / edited by Claude Schumacher with Brian Singleton.

Publisher

Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, [2004]

Copyright Date

©2001

Description

xxxvi, 246 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-237) and index.

Summary

"With Brecht and Meyerhold, Antonin Artaud was one of the great visionaries of twentieth-century theatre, best known perhaps for what he called the "Theatre of Cruelty." This revised and updated edition of Artaud on Theatre contains all of his key writings on theatre and cinema from 1921 to his death in 1948, including new selections which have never before appeared in English. Together with an Introduction, biographical notes, and commentary, the collection charts Artaud's work from his early association with surrealism, through his founding of the Théâtre Alfred Jarry, to the invocation of his compelling vision in his most famous manifesto, The Theatre and Its Double. Artaud's poetic and inspirational writings called for a fundamental regeneration of Western art. He wanted to return the theatre to its roots in ritual and to transform the audience through total emotional, psychic, and physical involvement. Anarchic and disruptive, he was misunderstood, silenced, and ostracized in his lifetime, but was later championed as an icon of the sixties counterculture. His ideas have inspired the work of Genet, Arrabal, The Living Theatre, Grotowski, Brook, and most of the experimental drama and performance work of recent decades."--Publisher's description.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Schumacher, Claude, editor.

Singleton, Brian, 1960- editor.

Research Call Number

MWE 22-4678