the immanent Real, which becomes the theatres double. Dive deep into Antonin Artauds The Theater and Its Double with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion. Artaud is one of the great, daring mapmakers of consciousness in extremis. Paulhan and dated 19 April 1946, invites a new reading of his theatre of cru. Artaud's thought is organically part of his singular, haunted, impotent, savagely intelligent consciousness. Artaud changed the understanding of what was serious, what was worth doing. No one who works in the theater now is untouched by the impact of Artaud's specific ideas. "The course of all recent serious theater in Western Europe and the Americas can be said to divide into two periods-before Artaud and after Artaud. A collection of manifestos originally published in 1938, The Theater and Its Double is the fullest statement of the ideas of Antonin Artaud. He wished to destroy all forms of language and all social proprieties in order to bring life into the theater and to make actors and audience into "victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames." The Theatre and Its Double Antonin Artaud Translated by Victor Corti ONEWORLD CLASSICS oneworld classics ltd London House 243-253 Lower Mortlake Road Richmond Surrey TW9 2LL United Kingdom The Theatre and Its Double first published in French in 1964 First published in Great Britain by Calder & Boyars Ltd in 1970 This revised translation first published by Oneworld Classics Limited in 2010 Copyright ditions Gallimard 1978 This revised translation Oneworld. In three famous essays, "No More Masterpieces," "An Affective Athleticism," and "The Theater and the Plague," which appear in this book, he repudiated all literature written to be performed, all Western traditions and civilization itself. "We cannot go on prostituting the idea of the theater, the only value of which is in its excruciating, magical relation to reality and danger," he wrote. The Theater and Its Double, the first English translation of a collection of manifestos originally published in 1938, is the fullest statement of the ideas of Artaud. The whole structure is encased in double shells of steel and opaque. Antonin Artaud - The Theater and Its Double Puppet Theatre concludes all its performances with the sharing of home-baked bread.
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