![]() I recommend you to load your rifles with as many bullets as they will hold, since eight bullets can kill eight Russians and that's just so many more I won't have on my back (Jarry 54).Īrtaud makes clear his own view of language when he writes, ![]() I shall remain in your midst like an animated citadel, and the rest of you will gravitate around me. We'll stay on top of this hill and we'll not be so silly as to venture down. These images are often shocking, but as Artaud explains, "We are not free, and the sky can still fall on our heads and the theater exists to remind us of this fact" (Artaud 79).Īlfred Jarry's King Ubu displays "the spirit of profound anarchy which is the root of all poetry" (Artaud 42), and this can be seen in Act IV of the play as Pa Ubu states, This potent combination is used to disturb the subconscious of the audience and kindle their imaginations. His theories, based in part on Cambodian and Balinese dance, extol a form of "total theater," where visual images, gesture, light, sound, and noise take precedence over the written or spoken word. ![]() Antonin Artaud's theater of cruelty techniques are springboards for the director's imagination. ![]()
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