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Antonin Artaud
By Blake Morris
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Routledge Performance Practitioners is a series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the last century. Each volume explains the background to and the work of one of the major influences on twentieth- and twenty-first-century performance. Antonin Artaud was an active theatre-maker and theorist whose ideas reshaped contemporary approaches to performance. This is the first book to combinean overview of Artaud’s life with a focus on his work as an actor and director;an analysis of his key theories, including the Theatre of Cruelty and the double;a consideration of his work as a director at the Théâtre Alfred Jarry and his production of Strindberg’s A Dream Play; anda series of practical exercises to develop an approach to theatre based on Artaud’s key ideas.As a first step towards critical understanding and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners are unbeatable value for today’s student.