The Village Voice, February 20th, 2008
The Cenci
By Antonin Artaud
The Ohio Theatre
66 Wooster Street
866-811-4111
Poor, crazy Antonin Artaud, creator of the Theater of Cruelty, remains misunderstood everywhere. By "cruelty," he meant that he wanted to rip theater from the jaws of literature, to slash away atthe line between watching a play and being alive, and to leave audiences shaken and disturbed. Instead, companies attracted to his bad-boy image-like hotel Savant, who are mounting his notable 1935 failure, The Cenci-treat Artaud like he's Louis Vuitton just because he was French. They hire a glamorous crew of professional...
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