The Theater and Its Double by Antonin Artaud Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Theater and Its Double
Book Review: Decimation and Re-birth
Summary: 5 Stars
Artaud's words are sharp and violent and essential. They are glass shards, they are bullets, they are flames from the primordial fire. Yes this work is about the theatre but it cuts to something more elemental; Artaud, like Whitman, like Camus, wants us to open our eyes. He seethes with disdain for Occidental complacency, yet he seeks to do something about it, to foment revolution. He desires to confront us with our tired and repugnant cowardice. I've never encountered a text like this, one that shakes and quavers and dazzles and combusts with such maniacal fervor, such cruel poetry and apocalyptic delirium. After reading Artaud, you cannot be the same.Book Review: Essential companion to modern theatre
Summary: 5 Stars
I've kept my ratty copy of this book for 25 years wherever I have gone. It is a very serviceable translation of a seminal work of 20th century theatre criticism. Whatever one thinks of Artaud's ideas, he provides much food for thought. Essential reading for study or for pleasure.Book Review: A defining text.
Summary: 5 Stars
Through his theories of the theatre as a plague and as cruelty, Artaud defines in a small space exactly what American theatre has lost complete track of. If you hope to understand what theatre is and how it truly manifests itself, intently study this book. If you do not, then go away!
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