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Antonin Artaud is most widely known today for his intense portrayal in Carl Dreyer’s “Passion of Joan of Arc” as the handsome young priest, the only cleric sympathetic to the Maid of Orleans and her martyrdom.
Jan. 26, 1996
Entertainment & Arts
Beth Morrison has been obsessed with David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks” for most her life.
Aug. 8, 2017
Theater review: ‘Vox’ explores intriguing parallels of exiled surrealist Artaud and accused witch St. Joan.
Dec. 3, 1997
Iconic theater director Peter Sellars is staging the U.S. premiere of his provocative coupling of French theater visionary Antonin Artaud’s apocalyptic final text, “For an End to the Judgment of God,” and poet June Jordan’s “Kissing God Goodbye.”
Oct. 21, 2004
“A dangerous and terrible act” is how surrealist Antonin Artaud defined the “true” theater, but it’s an equally apt epithet for the bloody 15th century insurrection led by Joan of Arc.
Nov. 20, 1997
Antonin Artaud’s “For an End to the Judgment of God,” which opened in an unforgettably powerful performance by John Malpede and disturbing staging by Peter Sellars at REDCAT on Thursday night, is easily dismissed as the raging of a madman.
Oct. 23, 2004
Although he may not have been a widely accepted Surrealist (Andre Breton expelled him from the movement because of his fervent dedication to communism), Antonin Artaud shows his credentials clearly in his “Spurt of Blood.”
March 21, 1997
‘Purgatorio’ ominous, striking
Oct. 31, 2009
I read in horrified amazement “Impresario of the Avant-Garde” (by Richard Stayton, Dec. 23/30), about hauteur auteur Reza Abdoh’s puerile, indulgent and relentless rehashings of Antonin Artaudisms.
Feb. 10, 1991
Poet, translator and author Clayton Eshleman will give a poetry reading titled “Recent Poems and Some Translations of Antonin Artaud and Aime Cesaire” at 8 tonight at the Newport Harbor Art Museum.
Aug. 1, 1986