theater of cruelty

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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.

From New York Times

Mr. Brook had made great use of improvisation and theater games when he was rehearsing “The Balcony,” and in 1964, he took that process further in a series of experimental workshops financed by the R.S.C. and called the Theater of Cruelty season, in tribute to the theories of the French dramatist Antonin Artaud.

From New York Times

In Oslo, she lands an apprenticeship at The Theater of Cruelty and begins working on a project with local Syrian refugees, only to bungle it all with poor decisions and selfish lies — a turn that finally prompts some soul-searching.

From New York Times

“The theater of cruelty and the actual cruelty. I was so glad to see so much of that reflected in the collection.”

From Los Angeles Times

The theater of Beckett is a far cry from Artaud’s “theater of cruelty,” but the “strange sun” of his tragicomedies similarly lays bare what society and culture have assiduously worked to conceal.

From Los Angeles Times