The Theater and Its Double Quiz

Antonin Artaud

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Preface: Theater and Culture

I. Theater and the Plague

II. Metaphysics and the Mise en Scène

III. The Alchemical Theater

IV. On the Balinese Theater

V. Oriental and Occidental Theater

VI. No More Masterpieces

VII. The Theater and Cruelty

VIII. The Theater of Cruelty (First Manifesto)

IX. Letters on Cruelty

X. Letters on Language

XI. The Theater of Cruelty (Second Manifesto)

XII. An Affective Athleticism

XIII. Two Notes

In Memoriam: Antonin Artaud By Maurice Saillet

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The Theater and Its Double Quiz

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Artaud writes of "a seventh state which is beyond breath and which, through the door of the highest ____, the state of Sattva, joins the manifest to the non-manifest." (from XII. An Affective Athleticism)

To what does Artaud compare the ability of the theater's "magical means of art and speech to be exercised organically and altogether"? (from VIII. The Theater of Cruelty (First Manifesto))

In his last letter from "Letters on Language," Artaud says that in fact, the theater he is defining has to assume another _____ in order to function. (from X. Letters on Language)

Of what does Artaud say needs not to change before theater is renewed, but the reverse is true? (from VI. No More Masterpieces)

In his first letter from "Letters on Language," Artaud writes "It seems, in brief, that the highest possible idea of the theater is one that reconciles us philosophically with _____." (from X. Letters on Language)