Antonin artaud biography obras

I'm practically a phillistine when it comes to fine arts. Even then, I found much of what Artuad says in this manifesto to be surprisingly accessible.
The Occidental theatre has lost its magic to make a metaphysics out of gestures, lighting, movements, in the short, the whole mise en scene, proclaims Artuad.
The Director prostrates before the Author, the stage before the text, the non-discursive materiality of the word before the written text.
Frustrated by the emanciation of Theater into a pathetic, anaemic screen on which our psychological and moral squabbles are half projected and half resolved, Artuad proposes that we break out of the dictactorship of written text and restore to Theater its original destiny as a spectacle of equal convulsion, impulse, and vigour as the phenomenon of life itself.
In the Balinese theater, for example, the distinction between background and foreground collapse under the immense abstract weight of the costumes, the sound of the thunderous musical accompaniments that threaten to become gestures in thei

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