The Goal of Antonin Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty
Did Antonin Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty manage to change society in the way he intended?
Antonin Artaud: some say a madman, others say a theatrical genius. His fury and rebellion against the world around him are clearly demonstrated by the theatre he created. He wanted the audience to feel what he did and associate with his thoughts at a subconscious level. Artaud desired to show everyone something they had never seen before, by veering away from conventional Western theatre in the early twentieth century. The popular theatre at the time pe…
