WorksheetsArtaud
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
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
What did Artaud use as inspiration for his theatre?
Dreams
Nightmares
Images
Sounds
Which of these did Artaud keep to a minimum in his theatre?
Gestures
Sound
Dialogue
Mime
Which of these is Artaud?
