The Theater and its Double

By Antonin Artaud

Subjects: Theatre, Aufsatzsammlung, Theater, Teatro (Producao E Direcao)

Description: The Theater And Its Double is a collection of essays by french poet and playwrite Anton Artaud. Published in 1938. Artaud intended his work as an attack on theatrical convention and the importance of language of drama, opposing the vitality of the viewers sensual experience against theater as a contrived literary form, and urgency of expression against complacency on the part of the audience.