Word: artaud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...undressed the official TV newscasters (under orders from the ghost of Artaud) and had them take it up the ass from the Minister of Information, since that's what they like...
...Cheshire Cat-all the fond friends of generations of children. But in this Alice, the prattling antic chums from childhood cast shadows that are dark, deep and unsettling. The shadows invade the characters and dye them in the colors of Freud, and Jung, and Kafka, and Dali, and Antonin Artaud, who conceived the Theater of Cruelty. Innocence has been lost, assuredly, but a revelation has been gained as the audience is taken on a journey through the murky, quirky labyrinth of the human psyche. Alice is an exemplary instance of how a classic can be made...
...Nixon's America. We must see violence naked of its grandeur. We must, as Senelick says, leave the theatre unable to speak of the metaphysics of a work a tragedy. We must rather allow ourselves to be immersed in the tragedy and violence itself. This is close to Artaud's Theater of Cruclty, and is certainly viable...