„Love Me or Kill Me – Traces of Artaud´s Theater of Cruelty in Sarah Kane´s drama Cleansed Cover Image

„Miluj ma, alebo ma zabi“ – stopy Artaudovhodivadla krutosti v dráme Sarah Kane Očistení
„Love Me or Kill Me – Traces of Artaud´s Theater of Cruelty in Sarah Kane´s drama Cleansed

Author(s): Dana Gálová
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts
Published by: Ústav divadelnej a filmovej vedy SAV

Summary/Abstract: The author is investigating the influence of Artaud´s Theater of Cruelty in the creation of Sarah Kane. The drama Cleansed is fulfilling Artaud´s vision on theatre whose aim is to lead a spectator towards a new authentic experience, understanding and self- recognition. The author is working with all symbols of cruelty. „The audience is in fact searching in love, crime, drugs, war or uprising for a poetic status which is being transcended“ – wrote Antonin Artaud, and the author states, that Sarah Kane in her play Cleansed has approached this kind of perceived poetic status.

  • Issue Year: 55/2007
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 398-403
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Slovak