Antonin Artaud Quotes
I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
Artaud, Antonin. The Theater and Its Double. Translated by Mary Caroline Richards, Grove Press, 1958.
He was never shot by the people, but executed after a military coup.
In the Nazi occupation of Denmark in World War II a regulation was issued requiring Jews to wear a yellow Star of David on their clothing:. The day after these words were spoken, the king rode his horse in public, wearing the yellow star prominently on his tunic.
He was assassinated by his bodyguard the following week. See {620972}. This appears to be the first time that a politician who was threatened with harm chose social media—in this case a Tweet--to inform supporters of his situation. The “blasphemy” for which he was accused was to oppose the death penalty for saying or writing anything that was heresy or blasphemy as interpreted be fundamentalist Muslims,
The accusation backfired. She was regarded by the people as a patriot and heroine.
The Muslim Brotherhood Government had just been deposed by a popular coup d’etat carried out by the Egyptian military. The Brotherhood flooded into the streets to protest the coup and some of them attacked police with weapons. The military overreacted and in an effort to clear the demonstrators from the streets killed hundreds of them. This brought out signs like this.
Antoine Marie Joseph Paul Artaud, better known as Antonin Artaud, was a French writer, poet, dramatist, visual artist, essayist, actor and theatre director, widely recognized as one of the major figures of twentieth-century theatre and the European avant-garde, and known for his raw, surreal and transgressive themes. He conceptualized the Theatre of Cruelty movement with essays and plays, and wrote experimental texts with themes of introspection, mysticism, drug use, unorthodox politics and his experiences with schizophrenia.
