My Opinion on Artaud

I love Artaud’s “Theatre of Cruelty,” because it really gets the message across by heightening the audience’s senses as well as awakening the nerves and the heart. It gets them thinking about the situation happening within the play, they have no time for a break, their full attention is on the performance. I also love how the audience is placed in the centre of the performance because it’s like they are apart of it.

The way he uses gesture, image, sound and lighting to shock the audience is thrilling, I love a good scare. He believes gesture and movement to be more powerful than text; in some ways I believe that to be true because it physicalises emotions and enhances the overall character that an actor is trying portraying.