Download as ppt, pdf, txt or read online from scribd. My presentation of antonin artaud s spurt of blood for 20th century theatre history using just the opening scene, the video, along with a performance component. In two of his surrealist plays, antonin artaud inserted a scene where. Antonin artaud was a great poet who, like poe, holderlin, and nerval, wanted to live in the infinite and asked that the human spirit burn in absolute freedom. The theatre of cruelty, developed by antonin artaud, aimed to shock audiences through gesture, image, sound and lighting. Antonin artaud, the theater and its double 5 likes i, myself, spent 9 years in an insane asylum and never had any suicidal tendencies, but i know that every conversation i had with a psychiatrist during the morning visit made me long to hang myself because i was aware that i could not slit his throat. Shafer takes readers on a voyage through artauds life, which he spent amid the company of frances most influential cultural. Gilles deleuze posits that judgment is the crowning principle governing tragedy and modern philosophy at the same time pour en finir avec le jugement, in critique et clinique, 1995. At the core of the play is a simple and eloquent juxtaposition.
Please wash your hands and practise social distancing. Feb 12, 2012 my presentation of antonin artaud s spurt of blood for 20th century theatre history using just the opening scene, the video, along with a performance component. Artaud produced works in nearly every genre of human creativity attempting to fill the void. Poet, actor, playwright, surrealist, drug addict, asylum inmateantonin artaud 18961949 is one of the twentieth centurys most enigmatic personalities and idiosyncratic thinkers. The dismembered body in antonin artauds surrealist plays. Artaud and his doubles is a radical rethinking of one of the most wellknown and influential theater artists and theorists of the twentieth century. See antonin artaud, theatre and cruelty, in schumacher, artaud on theatre, pp. Antonin artauds the spurt of blood from 1925 is a stormy rumination on love, death and the predicaments of humanity concentrated to a few mindboggling pages. Find out the interesting information about the notable theatre director, essayist, poet, actor and playwright from france in facts about antonin artaud.
Apr 27, 2020 often deemed unstageable, artauds short play jet of blood, or spurt of blood as it is sometimes known, was written in, but not performed. Chanting artaud believed that traditional theatre was a slave to dialogue and tried to. Jet of blood, adapted from antonin artaud, directed by olivia allen. Studying surrealism in spurt of blood by prezi user on prezi.
I am the man, wrote artaud, who has best charted his inmost self. He had not seen much theatre, as movies even concerts came cheaper. He is best known for conceptualizing a theatre of cruelty. They helped to amplify artaud s ideas about performance. Artaud s use of language, sound, and tone maurice m.
With quavering voice you love me and everything is beautiful. While undisputedly influential, antonin artaud september 4, 1896march 4, 1948 remains one of the most controversial and discussed figures in 20thcentury theatre history. Antonin artauds suffering was real, and his experience in a body, including the suffering associated with his physical and mental ailmentscompounded by a lifelong addiction to narcotic painkillersconstitutes a central concern in his work. He needed to return a walking stick he believed belonged to st. He was born on the fourth of september 1896 in marseille, france, with the full name antoine marie joseph artaud. With simon stone, amelia best, lara tumak, austin castiglione, katherine tonkin, julian crotti, roderick cairns and grant cartwright. Artaud and his doubles university of michigan press. Antonin artauds workthe body of work as a wholeholds a proliferation of central concerns. Pdf antonin artaud tcm4 123683 mark russell academia.
This new adaptation of antonin artaud s spurt of blood incorporated with writing from artaud s greater body of work and sequences of dance and music, brings to life the genius and the madness of the worlds greatest proponent of the theatre of cruelty. The spurt of blood antonin artaud nature free 30day trial scribd. Natasha tripney describes how artauds ideas took shape, and traces their influence on directors and writers such as peter brook, samuel beckett and jean genet. Antonin artaud s suffering was real, and his experience in a body, including the suffering associated with his physical and mental ailmentscompounded by a lifelong addiction to narcotic painkillersconstitutes a central concern in his work. Brook in his seminal production of maratsade in 1965, antonin artaud 18961948 believed that. His writings comprise verse, prose poems, film scenarios, a historical novel, plays, essays on film, theater, art, and literature, and many letters. Antonin artaud and the theatre of cruelty the british library. Much of this paper deals with images artaud conjures up whereby theatrical experience is analogous with a blood transfusion. In two of his surrealist plays, antonin artaud inserted a scene where human limbs rain down on the stage.
In antonin artaud wrote a very strange play, translated variously as jet of blood or the spurt of blood, filled with odd characters, absurd plot twists, unspeakable acts, and the sort of unstageable stage directions youd expect from a man who had spent 9. Pdf the dismembered body in antonin artauds surrealist. In memoriam antonin artaud 5 6 7 15 33 48 53 68 74 84 89 101 105 122 3 142 147. Artaudss theatre free download as powerpoint presentation. Chapter two the dismembered body in antonin artauds surrealist plays thomas crombez in two of his surrealist plays, antonin artaud inserted a scene where human limbs rain down on the stage.
The theater and its double by antonin artaud katarze. Antonin artaud selfportrait 1947 antoine marie joseph artaud, french. His essay the theater and the plague, is a masterly and canonical text on the history of contemporary theater. Antonin artaud theatre of the cruelty ireland after returning from mexico, artaud briefly went back to france but to then go to ireland. From the archives this is the first time spurt of blood has been produced at notre dame. Feb, 20 discover book depositorys huge selection of artaud antonin books online. Labelle oh, for a language to write drama in, eugene oneill wrote in 1929. Pdf the dismembered body in antonin artauds surrealist plays. Antonin artaud s the spurt of blood from 1925 is a stormy rumination on love, death and the predicaments of humanity concentrated to a few mindboggling pages. The theater and its double by antonin artaud emory art history. Antoine henri joseph artaud, better known as antonin artaud french. Antonin artaud, september when we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach. The blood in the arteries and the veins is also black and viscous.
Antonin artaud s workthe body of work as a wholeholds a proliferation of central concerns. What most of us feel as a vague sense of lack or a desire for connection, artaud felt as agony. A note on the translation this translation faithfully follows the text of the le theatre et son double, published by gallimard in collection metamorphoses as no. Considered among the most influential figures in the evolution of modern drama theory, antonin artaud associated himself with surrealist writers, artists, and experimental theater groups in paris during the 1920s. Check out our resources for adapting to these times. This is what you get when you turn art or human creativity into religion. His life 18961948 by fourteen he was writing poetry but became increasingly frustrated by being unable to express himself ade. The spurt of blood antonin artaud free download as pdf file. You can also download the first two minutes of the recording pour finir avec le jugement. The spurt of blood by antonin artaud translated by ruby cohn young man.
Antonin artaud, cagliari and the plague the circular. These parallels, however, were solely based on the abundance of physical violence on stage. Conclusion overall, we think that the methods explored in the workshop greatly influenced our performance of the text. Artaud, however, was not insane but in luciferian pursuit of what society keeps hidden. In antonin artaud wrote a very strange play, translated variously as jet of blood or the spurt of blood, filled with odd characters, absurd plot twists, unspeakable acts, and the sort of unstageable stage directions youd expect from a man who had spent 9 of his last 11 years in an insane asylum. On the inner surfaces of the stomach membrane, innumerable spurts. The spurt of blood saratoga company at bailiwick repertory in 1925 antonin artaud wrote a very strange play, translated variously as jet of blood or the spurt of blood, filled with odd characters. Natasha tripney describes how artaud s ideas took shape, and traces their influence on directors and writers such as peter brook, samuel beckett and jean genet. Antonin artaud and the theatre of cruelty the british. Listed here on the greyfell channel for our startup theatre offering dec 2015 to plan. Jet of blood was completed in paris, on january 17, 1925, perhaps in its entirety on that day alone. A revolutionary figure in the literary avantgarde of his time, antonin artaud 18961948 is now seen to be central to the development of postmodernism. Designed by adam gardnir, lighting by luke hails, sound by hayley forward. Placing artaud s works and rhetoric within the specific context of european political, theatrical, and intellectual history of the early twentieth.
In the essay theatre and cruelty, artaud argues that society has become unaccustomed to a theatre of presence as the forcing of thought, largely on account of the damage wrought by psychological theatre, derived from racine. Introduction antonin artaud was born in marseilles in 1896. In response to these assertions, this book traces minutely artaud. Spiga the archives of the small city of cagliari, in sardinia, contain the report of an extraordinary historical fact, said a. The dismembered body in antonin artaud s surrealist plays. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. Artauds use of language, sound, and tone maurice m. Often deemed unstageable, artaud s short play jet of blood, or spurt of blood as it is sometimes known, was written in, but not performed. When political differences resulted in his break from the surrealists, he founded the. Antonin artauds the spurt of blood from 1925 is a stormy rumination on love, death and the predicaments of humanity concentrated to a few mindboggling. Everything indicates a fundamental disorder in the secretions.
Project muse artauds use of language, sound, and tone. Jet of blood was the first of four short absurdist plays in our lu theatre arts production, bsrd shrtz. It argues that the gnostic drama explored throughout artaud s oeuvre presents an assault on the founding tenets of western thought that is more thoroughgoing and powerful than that mounted by the poststructuralist critics who have adopted artaud as an icon of failure and madness. Jul 24, 2016 spurt of blood also known as jet of blood, a short play written by artaud, january, 1925. Father of the concept of theatre of cruelty popularized by peter. Antonin artaud by antonin artaud, susan sontag paperback. Essays and criticism on antonin artaud principal works. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. Antonin artaud, french dramatist, poet, actor, and theoretician of the surrealist movement who attempted to replace the bourgeois classical theatre with his theatre of cruelty, a primitive ceremonial experience intended to liberate the human subconscious and reveal man to himself. Antonin artauds pursuit of primal theatre andrew hagerty, candidate for the master of arts in theatre degree university of missourikansas city, 2016 abstract this thesis delves into the most volatile years of the notoriously volatile life of french poet and theatrical theorist antonin artaud 18961948.
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