Routledge Performance Practitioners is a series of introductory guides
to the key theatre-makers of the last century. Each volume explains the
background to and the work of one of the major influences on twentieth-
and twenty-first-century performance.
Antonin Artaud was an active theatre-maker and theorist whose ideas
reshaped contemporary approaches to performance. This is the first book
to combine
- an overview of Artaud's life with a focus on his work as an actor and
director;
- an analysis of his key theories, including the Theatre of Cruelty and
the double;
- a consideration of his work as a director at the Théâtre Alfred Jarry
and his production of Strindberg's A Dream Play; and
- a series of practical exercises to develop an approach to theatre
based on Artaud's key ideas.
As a first step towards critical understanding and as an initial
exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge
Performance Practitioners are unbeatable value for today's student.