Status Updates From Fifty Key Theatre Directors...

Madness was Artaud's raison d'être, his religion, the source of his pride. Like the great martyrs of myth, Artaud felt it was his duty to shake society out of its crippling indifference to the higher truths to which, he believed, only he had divinely ordained access.

به سیاست علاقه چندانی نداشت و تئاتر را تنها به عنوان یک آماتور تجربه کرده بود.
:اولین جنگ جهانی همه‌ی این‌ها را تغییر داد
...تقویم من از 4 اوت 1914 آغاز می‌شود
سیزده میلیون کشته
...یازده میلیون مجروح
پیسکاتور بیست ساله، با جنگ روبرو شد. سرنوشت. سرنوشتی که او را از هر معلم دیگری بی‌نیاز ساخت.

"The Kamerny [Theatre] was closed for alleged cosmopolitanism during one of the last Stalinist campaigns, a ruthless move which confirmed how alien [Tairov's] formal aesthetics were to officially approved socialist realism."

At the core of Craig's work is the notion that the theatre is a place where the ineffable world of spirit can find evanescent expression.
For Craig the task of the director was not to represent reality as much as to transcend it.

"Why sit at a table for months and try to force out your dormant feelings? ... You would do better to go out on the stage and at once engage in action."