Theatre of Cruelty is aimed at breaking down the barriers between the actor and the audience- the audience should have an emotional/ visceral response, which they may not fully understand
Breath control |
Visceral Sounds- moans, screams, whispers |
Movement is expressive rather than literal- Gesture is not naturalistic |
Attack on the senses |
Artaud is more of a Theorist than a practitioner- he wrote many essays on Theatre- but only actually produced 1 play. As a result, his ideas have to be interpreted and there are many different versions of Theatre of Cruelty out there (many of them are not very creative or actually meet Artaud's ideas beyond screaming and trying to be scary- which is a very simplistic reading of his theatre)
Grotesque,
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