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Author Description French surrealist poet and playwright <b>Antonin Artaud</b> advocated a deliberately shocking and confrontational style of drama that he called "theater of cruelty." <br /><br />People better knew Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud, an essayist, actor, and director. <br /><br />Considered among the most influential figures in the evolution of modern theory, Antonin Artaud associated with artists and experimental groups in Paris during the 1920s. <br /><br />Political differences then resulted in him breaking and founding the theatre <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/41534.Alfred_Jarry" title="Alfred Jarry" rel="nofollow noopener">Alfred Jarry</a> with <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1281461.Roger_Vitrac" title="Roger Vitrac" rel="nofollow noopener">Roger Vitrac</a> and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/82797.Robert_Aron" title="Robert Aron" rel="nofollow noopener">Robert Aron</a>. Together, they expected to create a forum for works to change radically. Artaud especially expressed disdain for west of the day, panned the ordered plot and scripted language that his contemporaries typically employed to convey ideas, and recorded his ideas in such works as <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/148917765.Le_Theatre_de_la_cruaute" title="Le Theatre de la cruaute" rel="nofollow noopener">Le Theatre de la cruaute</a> </i> and <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/325546.The_Theatre_and_Its_Double" title="The Theatre and Its Double" rel="nofollow noopener">The Theatre and Its Double</a> </i>. <br /><br />Artaud thought to represent reality and to affect the much possible audience and therefore used a mixture of strange and disturbing forms of lighting, sound, and other performance elements. <br /><br />Artaud wanted that the "spectacle" that "engulfed and physically affected" this audience, put in the middle. He referred to this layout like a "vortex," a "trapped and powerless" constantly shifting shape. <br />

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