theater of cruelty

Noem is a key player in the theater of cruelty, but she is not the only one, and the unparalleled star is of course President Trump.

The words seemed to echo from a shadowy past, where justice was twisted into a theater of cruelty, where the gallows were strung with piano wire on meat hooks.

In the 1930s, an entire movement — the Theater of Cruelty — was formulated, in the words of its founder, Antonin Artaud, to “subvert thought and logic and to shock the spectator into seeing the baseness of his world.”

It approaches Antonin Artaud’s theater of cruelty.

Kaprow himself was taking a course in experimental music at the New School led by John Cage, who taught not only his own principles of ambient sound but also the precedents of the early 20th-century European avant-garde — Dada, Surrealism, the “theater of cruelty” of Antonin Artaud.