Antonin Artaud

By Blake Morris

Book Overview

Routledge Performance Practitioners is a series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the last century. Each volume explains the background to and the work of one of the major influences on twentieth- and twenty-first-century performance.

Antonin Artaud was an active theatre-maker and theorist whose ideas reshaped contemporary approaches to performance. This is the first book to combine

an overview of Artaud's life with a focus on his work as an actor and director; an analysis of his key theories, including the Theatre of Cruelty and the double; a consideration of his work as a director at the Th tre Alfred Jarry and his production of Strindberg's A Dream Play; and a series of practical exercises to develop an approach to theatre based on Artaud's key ideas.

As a first step towards critical understanding and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners are unbeatable value for today's student.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367029790
• ISBN13: 9780367029791
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.7"