Word: artaud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Situation comedies and things like that don't interest me at all. And the whole naturalistic or realistic theater doesn't interest me very much. I don't think theater should ever be realistic. I just think that the power the theater has is in the unreal. Brecht, Meyerhold, Artaud--you can make a list as long as your arm of the people I think served the stage in the right fashion. And that's what musicals ought...
...Artaud also believed in exploiting fully the effects produced by lights, sounds, costumes, and the set. This production valiantly tries to remain faithful to Artaud's stage directions, and although Barbara Kirschten's costumes are very well conceived, some effects like the candies enhance the mood, but most cause more embarrassing technical difficulties than they're worth...
...play is supposed to open on a spiral gallery to give (according to Artaud) the illusion of depth and height create a rhythm of shadows that herald us into a mystical worlds, and destroy all sense of perspective. It is doubtful if any construction could fulfill all these expectations, but the side balcony used here only makes the seen hard...
...muses: "The difference between the villainies committed in real life and the villainies acted out on the stage is that in real life we do more and say less: while in the theater we talk endlessly and accomplish very little." Cenci proposes to restore the balance, but because of Artaud's limited idea of theater and the production's failings, his promise goes unfulfilled. The Cenci is mostly talk...
...Conci is reviewed in today's Crimson. Artaud's Theater of Cruelty is an ambitious production that achieves a lot, though there are problems. Dudley House tonight through Saturday...