false<![CDATA[The Theater and Its Double]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170883962m/75867.jpg758678Since its first publication in 1938, <I>The Theater and Its Double</I> by the French artist and philosopher Antonin Artaud has continued to provoke, inspire, enrage, enliven, challenge, and goad any number of theatrical debates in its call for a "Theater of Cruelty." A trio of theatrical manifestos, the book is an aggressive attack on many of the most treasured beliefs of both theater and Western culture. According to Artaud, the theater's "double" is similar to its Jungian "shadow," the unacknowledged, unconscious element that completes it but is in many ways its opposite. As "culture" inexorably draws the artistic impulse into safe channels, the repressed irrational urges of theater, based on dreams, religion, and emotion, are increasingly necessary to "purge" the sickness of society. Artaud identifies language itself as one of the major cultural culprits, and his attacks on it occasionally makes his text rough going. But his challenge to restore relevance to the heart of the theatrical experience remains fundamental to the vitality of theater, and his insistence on the sensory experience of drama as opposed to the literary (and such innovative ideas as the use of unconventional "found spaces") continues to be the clarion call of the theatrical avant-garde. <I>--John Longenbaugh</I> 733921970The Theater and Its Doubletotal:370|5:188|4:117|3:53|2:8|1:4|37015875293151falsefalseFri Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004Wed Jul 04 01:47:56 -0700 2007Wed Jul 04 01:49:47 -0700 200750falsefalseSun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1984Sun Mar 16 11:32:37 -0700 2008Sun Mar 16 17:23:59 -0700 2008
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in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames."--Antonin Artaud
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The Theater and Its Double is a miserable chore through which to hack. I can't help but think that Artaud would be the person at the party who picks fights with each guest for no reason, and that his few friends are those who see thr...more...]]>
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I have a documentary on Artaud that is fascinating. But surely he was on to something wit...more...]]>
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