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Article: The torment and talent of Antonin Artaud

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June 9, 1995
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MY LIFE AND TIMES WITH ANTONIN ARTAUD

Directed by: Gerard Mordillat

Screenplay by: Mordillat, Jerome Prieur (book: Jacques

Prevel)

Starring: Sami Frey, Marc Barbe, Julie Jezequel, Valerie

Jeannet

Playing at: Brattle Theatre (in French, subtitles)

Unrated

A couple of decades ago, when theater was being dragged new places by Jerzy Grotowski and Peter Brook, it looked as if their inspiration, Antonin Artaud, was to be posthumously enshrined. Artaud's downplaying of text -- his emphasis on gesture, on primal grunts and shrieks, on the breakdown of the safety zone between audience and performers -- helped usher in "director's theater." Articulated in essays collectively ...

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