The Boston Globe, June 9th, 1995
MY LIFE AND TIMES WITH ANTONIN ARTAUD Directed by: Gerard Mordillat Screenplay by: Mordillat, Jerome Prieur (book: Jacques Prevel) Starring: Sami Frey, Marc Barbe, Julie Jezequel, Valerie Jeannet Playing at: Brattle Theatre (in French, subtitles) Unrated A couple of decades ago, when theater was being dragged new places by Jerzy Grotowski and Peter Brook, it looked as if their inspiration, Antonin Artaud, was to be posthumously enshrined. Artaud's downplaying of text -- his emphasis on gesture, on primal grunts and shrieks, on the breakdown of the safety zone between audience and performers --...
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