Acting Artaud.mpg. THE BED EXPERIMENT ONE / excerpt I - Margolis Brown ADAPTORS. Theatre Of Cruelty -Antonin Artaud. Artaud and Drama Presentation. What is “Drama”? • isn’t just anything that happens on a stage • an historical form of art (grows, forms, dies) dependent on particular social conditions • the object of Artaud’s scorn - negates its principles • Artaud calls it “storytelling psychology” - Shakespeare, Racine • arose in Elizabethan England; came into being in C17th France; perpetuated in German Classical [Shakespeare’s Hamlet (1600); Racine’s Phaedra (1677); Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell (1804)] “Drama” depicts Action, enacted by Characters, through Dialogue, within a mimetic re-creation of reality Defining “Drama” • “Drama” in the critical sense of the word - very specific - not normative, but historical -> (not commanding what one should do, but describing what was done) • Three principle features: 1) Interpersonal - 2) Dialogue form - 3) Absolute Negating “Drama” • In course of The Theatre and its Double, Artaud negates each of these principles • Not the only one to do so - range of possibilities (theatrical & dramatic modernism)
Wilberforce College AS Level Drama and Theatre Studies -- Antonin Artaud Experience.wmv. How to Teach Artaud, Practical Approaches to Artaud and the Theatre of Cruelty. This comprehensive drama teaching resource is especially relevant where students need to explore a play and can choose Artaud as the influencing practitioner and where they need to devise their own piece and can drawn on the work of Artaud and his Theatre of Cruelty. The DVD contains practical approaches to working with Artaud and the Theatre of Cruelty. It provides examples of student's work that are used as examplars of excellence for post 16 examinations. These are combined with a wealth of performance footage from professional companies, as well as interviews and practical exercises from leading Artaud practitioners. There is also an overview from Stephen Barber, Artaud's biographer and author of three books on Artaud. Disc 1 is a DVD Video disc that can be played on set top boxes as well as computers.
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