Antonin Artaud

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.

Artaud believed that the Theatre should affect the audience as much as possible, therefore he used sounds to add drama and effect. In one performance that he did about the plague he used sounds so realistic that the audience were sick in the middle of the performance…

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