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: 119 Originally Artaud was a strong proponent of Dullin's teaching, stating, 'Hearing Dullin teach I feel that I'm rediscovering ancient secrets and a whole forgotten mystique of production'.

:345Īs a member of Dullin's troupe, Artaud trained for ten to twelve hours a day. :345 Artaud remained a member of for eighteen months. : 350 His core theatrical training was as part of Dullin's troupe, Théâtre de l'Atelier, which he joined in 1921.

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Lugné Poe, who gave Artaud his first work in a professional theatre, would later describe Artaud as 'a painter lost in the midst of actors'. This included Jacques Copeau, André Antoine, Georges and Ludmilla Pitoëff, Charles Dullin, Firmin Gémier and Lugné Poe. In Paris, Artaud worked with a number of celebrated French 'teacher-directors'. :162 In March 1921, Artaud moved to Paris where he was put under the psychiatric care of Dr Édouard Toulouse who took him in as a boarder. :4 In May 1919, the director of the sanatorium prescribed laudanum for Artaud, precipitating a lifelong addiction to that and other opiates. :26 He was discharged due to 'an unspecified health reason' (Artaud would later claim it was 'due to sleepwalking', while his mother ascribed it to his 'nervous condition'). :163 There was a pause in his treatment in 1916, when Artaud was conscripted into the French Army.

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Over the next five years Artaud was admitted to a series of sanatoria. At the end of college he started to noticeably withdraw from social life and 'destroyed most of his written work and gave away his books.' :3 Distressed, his parents arranged for him to see a psychiatrist. Here he began reading works by Arthur Rimbaud, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Edgar Allan Poe and founded a private literary magazine in collaboration with his friends. Biographer David Shafer points out, 'given the frequency of such misdiagnoses, coupled with the absence of a treatment (and consequent near-minimal survival rate) and the symptoms he had, it’s unlikely that Artaud actually contracted it.' įrom 1907 to 1914, Artaud attended the Collége Sacré-Coeur. Artaud was diagnosed with meningitis at age five, a disease which had no cure at the time. Įuphrasie gave birth to nine children, but four were stillborn and two others died in childhood.

He was, throughout his life, greatly affected by his Greek ancestry. His maternal grandmother, Mariette Chilé, grew up in Smyrna, where she married Louis Nalpas, a local ship chandler. His paternal grandmother, Catherine Chilé, was raised in Marseille, where she married Marius Artaud, a Frenchman. His parents were first cousins-his grandmothers were sisters from Smyrna (modern day İzmir, in Turkey). 4.1 Pour en Finir avec le Jugement de DieuĪntonin Artaud was born in Marseille, to Euphrasie Nalpas and Antoine-Roi Artaud.2.6 At the Paris Colonial Exposition (1931).Some of his significant pieces of work include, ‘Art and Death and ‘The Theatre and its Double’, through which he forwarded the ideas for the creation of a new genre of theatre, that he hoped would change the perceptions of the-then theatrical experiences. He was also a prolific writer and contributed regularly to periodicals like the journal, ‘Litterature’. Apart from being as a playwright, he was also an actor, artist, designer and director. His plays were usually centered on human behavior and raw human emotions, many of which were jeered at and even dismissed by a number of people. He decided very early on that a new type of theatre was required, thereby transfiguring his famous, ‘Theater of Cruelty’ idea, which added importance on manuscript and on the primordial expressions of movement, light and sound combined. He was briefly involved with the Surrealist movement in the early years of his career, which influenced a number of his works. He was a great French playwright and also became known for his theoretical writings. Antonin Artaud was a playwright for very few plays during his lifetime, but he exercised a considerable amount of influence with his small collection of works.

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