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FRANCISCO CENCI (a sixteenth centaurs Roman nobleman who arranged the death of two of his sons and raped his daughter has intrigued a safety of authors including Stendahl. Shelley, and in this century. Antonin Artaud Beatrice, his daughter, added by her step-mother Lucretia and her remaining brothers, avenged the Counts crimes by hiring two assassins who killed him driving nails through his eye and throat. The plot was soon discovered and Lucretia. Beatrice, and her brother Giacomo were beheaded after Pops Clement VII deed their-piers for pardon...
...Artaud felt this bizarre family history was suited to has brand of theater Although he never details his conceptions about drama Artaud views theater as a visceral almost religions encounter, where the audience is emotionally drawn into the action and experiences a catharsis at the play...
...Antonin Artaud's The Concl, was written by the man who coined the "theater of cruelty" movement. And the story of The Concl, a murderous, incestuous Roman family of the late sixteenth century, is certainly cruel enough (Shelley used it when he wanted to write a blood-and-thunder Jacobean verse drama). Director Phill Hass is usually good at bright more or less esoteric Continental playwrights to English audiences, and The Concl should be a worthwhile evening. At Lehman Hall, tonight, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and next weekend...
...could just as easily be the first ecological vampire movie, or the first to plead the case of needy vampires. The work of Hans W. Geissendorfer, a young West German film maker, Jonathan has less relation to the jugular entertain ments of Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee than to Artaud's theater of cruelty...
...article titled "The Bald Primaqueera,"* which blasted the theaters of cruelty and the absurd, Sean O'Casey offered his view of the source of this sense of degradation: "It was Artaud-the latest trumpeter of the Primaqueeri-or one of his brethren, who gave us a picture of a beautiful girl, naked, with a malignant tarantula spider between her lovely thighs." In Harold Pinter's work, the temptress/tarantula becomes the slut/ mother. The theme is developed with the greatest finesse in The Homecoming. Ruth and her husband Teddy come home to England to visit Teddy's widowed...