Word: artaud
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...novel is good, but it's not Sontag at her best. Though she shuns it, the temptation to contrast Volcano Lover with her earlier work is irresistible. Sontag--the same woman who was influenced by the novels and plays of Batille and Artaud and the philosophy of Sartre, Camus, Lukacs, Barthes and Canetti--has turned her back on the present by ignoring the history of her work...
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...
...there was a six-foot long hand of God that spewed liquid although she took notes on it with rapt attention for a good quarter of the performance--all through the sequence where one cast member is naked (she doesn't) mention the nudity). Ms. S. doesn't like Artaud very much, although she obviously hasn't read the play...
...comments about acting and plot, when applied to a surrealist play, carry about as much weight as complaints about the temperature when reviewing an art show. Ms. S. had the opportunity to read the play and comment on how Gammons successfully or unsatisfactorally handled the demands of the script Artaud called "unstageable." Then maybe she could think of how and why such a "meaningless" show caught the fancy of the Harvard theatergoers last weekend, seating over 100 people in three nights...
...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...