Week 3 response...

... to which play Artaud should put on.


Artaud argued against classical texts like 'Oedipus' in "No More Masterpieces"... yet his list of plays, which include Shakespeare, for me contradicted this, and suggested he wanted to stage these masterpieces.

I'd argue that 'One of the Marquis de Sade's tales' is perhaps the play in Artaud's programme (pg.77) that is closest to some of his ideas... perhaps like the Theatre of Cruelty? The tales are full of violence and eroticism and the "externalisation of cruelty". Tales like '100 years of Sodom', feature orgies and sexual fantasies and rape.
But then, I never thought that the Theatre of Cruelty was about a physical kind of violence, not an external one. But not a pyschological violence either...