The Theatre of Cruelty has been created in order to restore… - Antonin Artaud

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The Theatre of Cruelty has been created in order to restore to the theatre a passionate and convulsive conception of life, and it is in this sense of violent rigour and extreme condensation of scenic elements that the cruelty on which it is based must be understood. This cruelty, which will be bloody when necessary but not systematically so, can thus be identified with a kind of severe moral purity which is not afraid to pay life the price it must be paid.

Antonin Artaud

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Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud (September 4, 1896 – March 8, 1948), better known as Antonin Artaud, was a French playwright, poet, actor and director.

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Alternative Names: Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud • Antoine Marie Joseph Paul Artaud • Artaud

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