El teatro de la crueldad: Ciencia, poesía y metafísica

by Antonin Artaud

Los textos que integran 'El teatro de la crueldad', atestiguan, pese a su total desenfreno, la necesidad inevitable de entrar en contacto directo con el ser humano, tanto por medio del cuerpo como por medio del 'alma', del grito, queriendo que el ser humano se pliegue a la rebeldía total, a la libertad absoluta.

124 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Published January 1, 2019

About the author

French surrealist poet and playwright Antonin Artaud advocated a deliberately shocking and confrontational style of drama that he called "theater of cruelty."

People better knew Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud, an essayist, actor, and director.

Considered among the most influential figures in the evolution of modern theory, Antonin Artaud associated with artists and experimental groups in Paris during the 1920s.

Political differences then resulted in him breaking and founding the theatre Alfred Jarry with Roger Vitrac and Robert Aron. Together, they expected to create a forum for works to change radically. Artaud especially expressed disdain for west of the day, panned the ordered plot and scripted language that his contemporaries typically employed to convey ideas, and recorded his ideas in such works as Le Theatre de la cruaute and The Theatre and Its Double .

Artaud thought to represent reality and to affect the much possible audience and therefore used a mixture of strange and disturbing forms of lighting, sound, and other performance elements.

Artaud wanted that the "spectacle" that "engulfed and physically affected" this audience, put in the middle. He referred to this layout like a "vortex," a "trapped and powerless" constantly shifting shape.

Reviews

[Fernando Hoyos · Rating 4 out of 5]

«Quisiera escribir una obra de teatro que incomode a los seres humanos, que sea como una puerta abierta y que los lleve donde ellos jamás querrían llegar; directamente a una puerta abierta que los enfrente con la realidad».

[Alfreien · Rating 5 out of 5]

I came to read some of Artaud’s writing after I began Anti-Oedipus, and this one seems to be of immense relevance.

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[Fran Faura · Rating 5 out of 5]

"La crueldad es sobre todo exigencia y tenacidad. La decisión implacable e irreversible de transformar al ser humano en un ser lúcido. [...] Para dar origen a mi "crueldad" será necesario cometer un crimen. Hay que asesinar al padre de la ineficacia en el arte del teatro: el poder de la palabra y el texto."

"No es cuestión de suprimir el lenguaje hablado, sino de dar a las palabras la importancia que tienen en los sueños".

Duro, cruel e incómodo. Una maravilla que critica todo el teatro viejo y aboga por un teatro que haga a los espectadores partícipes activos en su misión del ser.