Practical Approaches to Artaud and the Theatre of Cruelty

Alternative title

Antonin Artaud: Pactical Approaches to a Theatre of Cruelty

Synopsis

This two-disc DVD set showcases practical approaches to working with Artaud and the Theatre of Cruelty. It provides examples of students’ work considered excellent by moderators. These are combined with a wealth of performance footage from professional companies, interviews and practical exercises from leading Artaud practitioners, as well as an overview from Stephen Barber, Artaud’s biographer and author of three books on Artaud.
Disc 1 - ‘The life of Antonin Artaud’ is a DVD VIDEO that can be run on both DVD Players and Computers. It contains a 25’ documentary about the life of Antonin Artaud and two examples of top band student work, using Artaud’s ideas and his text Jet de Sang (Jet of Blood).
Disc 2 - is an INTERACTIVE DVD-ROM that ONLY RUNS ON COMPUTERS. It contains a resource bank of over 100 video clips from Artaud influenced performances, interviews with leading authorities and a ‘Performance Generator’ (a series of short quotes from Artaud’s texts, intended to help initiate workshop ideas). The menu navigates the video clips by Topic or by Performance and links to the ‘Performance Generator’ (also included as an editable PowerPoint presentation accessed from the DVD-ROM ‘Artaud’ folder via the file manager).

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Year of release

2011

Subjects

Drama; French studies

Keywords

drama teaching; French drama; theatre; Artaud, Antonin

Credits

Contributor

Stephen Barber

Distribution Formats

Type

DVD

Format

Region 2 PAL

Price

£75.00

Availability

Sale

Duration/Size

120 minutes

Year

2013

Distributor

Name

Pumpkin Interactive

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