Antonin Artaud

Death penalty on juveniles Capital punishment has continued to elicit raging debates over the years. Inferring from the Furman v. Georgia (1972), Gregg v. Georgia (1976) and the resumption of death penalty as the retribution, the issue of innocence continues to haunt and cause contentious public debates in the United States (Foley, 2004). With regards to this, consignment of juvenile offenders to the gallows have consistently been disputed as a disproportionate punishment to minors; those below…

The Mass in D major, Opus 86, for chorus, soloists and organ —also known as “Lužany Mass”—was originally composed in 1887 for the consecration of the chapel in the stately home of the prominent architect and philanthropist Josef Hlávka in Lužany. Hlávka had built a chapel at his residence in the southwest Bohemian village of Lužany, and he wanted music by Dvořák for its consecration. Hlávka and Dvořák corresponded personally, and Dvořák was glad to seize upon this opportunity to write to…

In 1938, Antonin Artaud brought to light the important factors that should be involved in making a play. Antonin Artaud was a French dramatist, poet, actor and director. In 1931, after watching a Balinese dance at the Paris Colonial Exposition, Artaud was inspired and wrote The Theatre and its Double. Mise en Scene is the set design and surroundings involved in a play, according to Artaud it has an import role in theatre. In his manifesto, he discussed theatres lack of images, dynamism and he…

“We must have done with this idea of masterpieces reserved for a self-styled elite and not understood by the general public; the mind has no such restricted districts as those so often used for clandestine sexual encounters” (74). Artaud claims that the works of Sophocles and Shakespeare are no longer relevant to modern society – a society of mechanization and industrialization. “If the public does not frequent our literary masterpieces, it is because those masterpieces are literary, that is…

When considering anti-theater, the observation of not only the performance, but also the mise in scene should be taken into account. This is the only way to obtain a full understanding of the play. Among other occupations, Antonin Artaud was a theater director, and in his book The Theater and It’s Double, he explains how the totality of the work is given power through language and the mise in scene. An example of this can been seen in the preface where he writes, “How hard it is, when everything…

with the theater of cruelty,is nothing but vague guessings but hey.Turned out i was right,so what can you do?So he basically saying that there this cool dude name Antonin Artaud and the reason why he got this cool name is because he French.Although,a lot of people who are familiar with him,would call him Artaud for short,since Antonin sounds a little too feminine at the time,and i’m pretty sure no one bother to give woman of the preceding generation the amount of concerns they’re suppose to have…

“A Nation Cannot Exist Without a National Institute” Ireland had a plethora of existing literature before its nationalist movement, however, the majority of their literature was centered on British prejudiced. A unified movement to create a uniquely Irish dramatic form had not yet been attempted. William Butler Yeats saw this as his opportunity to develop his paragon of Irish theatre that could unify Ireland through literature. Yeats alleged that in order to create a mature society, Ireland…

ridicule the supposed meaninglessness of the modern world. It peaked in 1916 to 1922, with early centers in Zürich, Switzerland at the Cabaret Voltaire. It favored being against normal societal actions. Artists of Dadaism included Marcel Duchamp, Antonin Artaud, Max Ernst, and Salvador Dali. “Dada is what you can make out of yourself” (Hausmann, 1968) “Dada is a state of mind that can be revealed in any conversation whatever, so that you are compelled to say: this man is a DADAIST—that man is…

Elizabethan Theatres, And How Theatres Have Changed Theatre, like most things, has evolved over the years, and is vastly different from what it was five hundred years ago. Macbeth by William Shakespeare was written during the Elizabethan era, which had playhouses which are very different from twenty first century theatres. The first Elizabethan playhouse in England was built in 1576, just outside of London’s city boundaries. Simply named The Theatre, this building lead way for The Curtain, The…

funding and bring a bigger budget for future performances. Instead of sticking to the same performances or dwelling on the past, a theatre should use the historical dramas and new ideas in order to draw attention to the new generation. I appreciate Antonin Artaud because he didn’t believe that script should be the primary source to drama. He did not suggest creativity but he did wish to substitute language for signs, symbols, and sounds. In order to help creativity evolve within a theatre, I…