Which was performed in New York and Paris, as well as London
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Antonin Artaud
Antoine Maria Joseph Paul Artaud, better known as Antonin Artaud, was a French artist who worked across a variety of media. He is best known for his writings, as well as his work in the theatre and cinema. Widely recognized as a major figure of the European avant-garde, he had a particularly strong influence on twentieth-century theatre through his conceptualization of the Theatre of Cruelty. Know…
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culture · French artist (1896–1948) · playwright · actor · poet · film critic · writer · essayist · screenwriter · painter · stage actor · film actor · also Antonin Artaud, Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud, Antoine Marie Joseph Paul Artaud, Artaud
Born 4 September 1896 · Died 4 March 1948 · Q187166
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1964· 2 entries
When Peter Brook and Charles Marowitz staged it as part of their "Theatre of Cruelty" season at the Royal Shakespeare Company—he has exerted a strong influence on the development of experimental theatre and performance a
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1949· 1 entry
The essay was the first of Artaud's to be translated in a United States–based publication, the influential literary magazine Tiger's Eye
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1948· 3 entries
Died 1948-03-04.
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“Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.”
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“With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.”
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1947· 1 entry
Awarded Prix Sainte-Beuve (1947).
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1946· 1 entry
Ferdière released Artaud to his friends, who placed him in the psychiatric clinic at Ivry-sur-Seine
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1943· 1 entry
When France was occupied by the Germans and Italians, Robert Desnos arranged to have Artaud transferred to the psychiatric hospital in Rodez, which was well inside Vichy territory
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1938· 1 entry
Artaud published The Theatre and Its Double, one of his most important texts
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1937· 1 entry
Artaud returned to France, where his friend René Thomas gave him a walking-stick of knotted wood that Artaud believed was the "most sacred relic of the Irish church, the Bachall Ísu, or 'Staff of Jesus'" and contained ma
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1935· 2 entries
Artaud decided to go to Mexico, where he was convinced there was "a sort of deep movement in favour of a return to civilisation before Cortez"
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Artaud staged an original adaptation of Percy Bysshe Shelley's The Cenci at the Théâtre des Folies-Wagram in Paris
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1932· 1 entry
“First Manifesto for a Theatre of Cruelty”
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1931· 1 entry
Artaud saw Balinese dance performed at the Paris Colonial Exposition
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1926· 1 entry
Artaud, Robert Aron and the expelled surrealist Roger Vitrac founded the Théâtre Alfred Jarry (TAJ)
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1923· 1 entry
Artaud submitted poems to La Nouvelle Revue Française (NRF), a prominent French literary journal
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1916· 1 entry
There was a pause in Artaud's treatment when he was conscripted into the French Army
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1896· 1 entry
Born 1896-09-04.
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