Artaud

What is a Theatre Practitioner?

• Someone who works with the technical side of the Theatre.

• Someone who practises theatre.

• Someone who creates performances/techniques that highlight a particular style usually based on their own theory and style.

• Someone who adapts work from others and turns them into scripts.

Antonin Artaud - BIRTH & DEATH...

• 2001 - present day

• 1902 - 1988

• 1601 - 1688

• 1896 - 1948

Artaud created

• Theatre of Evil

• Theatre of Pain

• Theatre of Cruelty

• Theatre of Oppression

Artaud refused to work with

• Actors

• cameras

• realism

• animals

Artaud wanted to........................ the audience?

(More than one answer!)

• shock

• unsettle

• make the audience uncomfortable

• bewilder

Artaud felt that theatre should highlight...

• the loveliness in men's souls

• the underlying brutality of life

• the need for good healthcare

• fun and lightheartedness after the war

Who felt that naturalistic theatre just mirrored life without exploring the darker thoughts of the mind?

• Strauss

• Antonin Artaud

• Stanislavski

• Mike Leigh

Antonin Artaud created a style of theatre called 'Theatre of Cruelty'. What were the aims for this style?

(More than one answer!)

• Entertain the audience and make them laugh.

• Disturb the audience's tranquility of mind and their senses.

• Technical effects were used to create a visible and audible frenzy: loud and dissonant sound effects, rotating stage sets, bright/flashing/coloured light, unusual speech effects.

• Emotionally connect to the actors and story lines.

What did Artaud want his theatre to appeal to?

• The 5 senses

• The mind

• The masses

• Children

Where did Artaud want his audience to be during a performance?

• In front of the stage

• Surrounded by the actors and action

• High up

• Behind a glass partition