Antonin Artaud : Collected Works (Volume 3) [Paperback]

Antonin Artaud (Author), Alastair Hamilton (Narrator)

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ISBN-10: 0714507792 | ISBN-13: 978-0714507798 | Publication Date: 1999

Drama. This important volume of "Collected Works" includes one of Artaud's most seminal texts, Theatre and Its Double, and his play The Cenci. Also included are appendices, copious notes and his essay "Seraphim's Theater". The Theatre and Its Double, published here in its entirety, remains one of the most radical texts on performance in print today. The lesser-known "Seraphim's Theater" outlines an actor's application of the Taoist principles of fullness and emptiness, and has provided inspiration to actors and directors in experimental and non-naturalistic areas of the theater. The Cenci remains a landmark in twentieth-century theater as an early production of the "theatre of cruelty".

Product Details

• Paperback: 255 pages
• Publisher: John Calder Pub Ltd (1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0714507792
• ISBN-13: 978-0714507798
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,953,603 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: Antonin Artaud : Collected Works (Volume 3) (Paperback)

This third volume of A. Artaud for whom Sartre siad that he is "the new poet of horror" continued the complete edition of his works. It is not as important as the "Theatre and its double" or Artaud's poems, but includes some of his Scenarios, views on the Cinema, Interviews held with Artaud, as well as his correspondance with Mademoiselle Yvonne Gilles, Madame Yvonne Allendy, Louis Jouvet and others. Although this volume might not be as significant as those containing his poetry and views on the theatre, it is an important link if we want to understand - as far as this is possible - the inner world of a man of tragic insolubility without gaining a distance of safety - that of an audience. Despite being known for his thetre of cruelty, Artaud is more a poet of sharp realization of existence; this volume adds to this understanding.