In 1925, the French playwright Roger Vitrac (1899-1952) and artist/director Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) were expelled from the surrealists by André Breton (1896-1966). Together, they conceived and ...

Antonin Artaud was many things—actor, poet, dramatist, theorist—but he is most famously known for founding the concept of the deeply influential Theatre of Cruelty. Artaud is said to have been ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Antonin Artaud was the mad prophet of 20th century theatre. Opposing himself to what he saw as a "terrible lack of imagination" on ...

Paul Smith introduces Antonin Artaud in Ireland, a new project from Ranlagh Arts looking at the myth and influence of the avant-garde genius, and a fateful trip to Ireland undertaken in the 1930s.