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

The Theater and Its Double Quiz

Artaud writes in his Second Manifesto that he plans to "renounce the theatrical superstition of the text and the _______ of the writer." (from XI. The Theater of Cruelty (Second Manifesto))

Why is the "Theater of Cruelty" considered cruel by Artaud? (from VI. No More Masterpieces)

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)

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

The biggest obstacle standing in the way of a complete and fundamental renewal of the art of theater is the respect and admiration that we have for the what? (from VI. No More Masterpieces)