Browsing Category: theatre of cruelty

  • Nancy Spero, Maypole: Take No Prisoners II (2008)

    Antonin Artaud only wrote one play, said to be impossible to restage. So we might now find the best example of the writer’s so-called Theatre of Cruelty at a Nancy Spero show Certainly, the only performance of Spurt of Blood which this blogger ever witnessed would be difficult to review. Shouts, cries and physical convulsions …

    March 21, 2011