Routledge Performance Practitioners is a series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the last century. Each volume explains the background to and the work of one of the major influences on twentieth- and twenty-first-century performance.
Antonin Artaud was an active theatre-maker and theorist whose ideas reshaped contemporary approaches to performance. This is the first book to combine
- an overview of Artaud-s life with a focus on his work as an actor and director;
- an analysis of his key theories, including the Theatre of Cruelty and the double;
- a consideration of his work as a director at the Th-re Alfred Jarry and his production of Strindberg-s A Dream Play; and
- a series of practical exercises to develop an approach to theatre based on Artaud-s key ideas.
As a first step towards critical understanding and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary resear
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