by Antonin Artaud · French and European Publications Inc · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070323012
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«Le Théâtre et son double» is Antonin Artaud's collection of theatrical essays published in paperback, with 256 pages, in French.
Artaud denounces a theater subordinated to the text and calls for a stage that acts as a ritual: the staging must strike the spectator's senses with the body, gesture, sound and light. His «theater of cruelty» does not seek gratuitous violence, but a cathartic experience that awakens deep forces that the word has repressed.
«Le Théâtre et son double» was originally published in 1938 and this edition belongs to the Folio/Essais collection (number 14).
For readers of theater theory, philosophy and art, and for audiences interested in the currents that renewed the modern stage.
Antoine Maria Joseph Paul Artaud, better known as Antonin Artaud, was a French artist who worked across a variety of media. He is best known for his writings, as well as his work in the theatre and cinema. Widely recognized as a major figure of the European avant-garde, he had a particularly strong influence on twentieth-century theatre through his conceptualization of the Theatre of Cruelty. Known for his raw, surreal and transgressive work, his texts explored themes from the cosmologies of ancient cultures, philosophy, the occult, mysticism and indigenous Mexican and Balinese practices.
