Finally reading this after many many years, and it is downright

>>8625277
Thanks for the recommendation. I've read his essay on Van Gogh and enjoyed it immensely, his prose is off the hook

>it is downright insane
heh

ap

>I know Artaud is kind of déclassé these days

why is this? what are the modern trend of art theatre?

>>8627775
I honestly don't know. Back in the 70s, Artaud was kind of all the rage, but I almost never hear him spoken of these days, and I think his whole "theatre of cruelty" thing is mostly ignored. Here in Germany there is no shortage of books on theatre, but I don't know who the most important voices are.

>>8627775
>what are the modern trend of art theatre?

There isn't any, unless you count "black box" which isn't modern; improv, which isn't art; or musicals, which aren't theatre.