Artaud developed the concept of the Theater of Cruelty, opposing theatrical conventions and the importance given to language and drama. He believed cruelty referred not to violence but showing the truth to agitate viewers and root ideas of perpetual conflict within them. The Theater of Cruelty aimed to assault audiences' senses through gestures and subconscious emotions rather than language, which Artaud saw as insufficient to express trauma. It sought to abolish traditional theater elements and immerse viewers in a visceral experience.
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Artaud developed the concept of the Theater of Cruelty, opposing theatrical conventions and the importance given to language and drama. He believed cruelty referred not to violence but showing the truth to agitate viewers and root ideas of perpetual conflict within them. The Theater of Cruelty aimed to assault audiences' senses through gestures and subconscious emotions rather than language, which Artaud saw as insufficient to express trauma. It sought to abolish traditional theater elements and immerse viewers in a visceral experience.
Artaud developed the concept of the Theater of Cruelty, opposing theatrical conventions and the importance given to language and drama. He believed cruelty referred not to violence but showing the truth to agitate viewers and root ideas of perpetual conflict within them. The Theater of Cruelty aimed to assault audiences' senses through gestures and subconscious emotions rather than language, which Artaud saw as insufficient to express trauma. It sought to abolish traditional theater elements and immerse viewers in a visceral experience.
and the importance of language of drama, opposing the vitality of the viewer's sensual experience against theatre as a contrived literary form, and urgency of expression against complacency on the part of the audience.
Theater of the cruelty
The Theater of Cruelty, where
Artaud expressed the importance of recovering "the notion of a kind of unique language half-way between gesture and thought."
He felt that cruelty was not an act
of violence, only a way to show the truth and he showed that by publishing his book.
Similarly, cruelty does not
refer to an act of emotional or physical violence. According to scholar Nathan Gorelick, Cruelty is, more profoundly, the unrelenting agitation of a life that has become unnecessary, lazy, or removed from a compelling force. The Theatre of Cruelty gives expression to everything that is crime, love, war, or madness in order to unforgettably root within us the ideas of perpetual conflict, a spasm in which life is continually lacerated, in which everything in creation rises up and asserts itself against our appointed rank.
Characteristics of the theatre
The Theater of Cruelty can be seen as break
with traditional Western theatre, and a means by which artists assault the senses of the audience, and allow them to feel the unexpressed emotions of the subconscious
Artaud believed that language was an
entirely insufficient means to express trauma. Speech on the Theatre of Crueltys stage is reduced to inarticulate sounds, cries, and gibbering screams, no longer inviting a subject into being but seeking to preclude its very [5] existence. Artaud wanted to abolish the stage and auditorium, and to do away with sets and props and marks