Word: artaud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Your unlucky reviewer, Ms. Ashwini Sukthankar, could have done herself a service by reading a dictionary definition of surrealism before writing her review of Jet of Blood, as most of her witless and floundering criticism of both Artaud and Gammons is in fact an uneducated denunciation of the surrealist movement...
...Loeb Ex's latest attempt at giving Harvard theater a good kick in the pants. An incomprehensible and highly derivative kick, but a kick nevertheless. The viewers may have wondered at times how so much irritating pretentiousness could be crammed into a seventeen-minute production of Antonin Artaud's play, but director David Gammons did it, and with considerable flair...
...script to work with. It sprouted such inspiring lines as "I love you and everything is beautiful"--enunciated in various shades of monotone by a variety of people--and "I have lost her. Give her back to me." By trying to use such cliches for ironic ends, Artaud was created the worst kind of cliche--in effect, a self-parody...