Artaud Research

• "Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape."
• "Those who live, live off the dead."

Basic Research about Antonin Artaud

1. "When we speak the word "life," it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach."
2. Acceptance of our own violence, weakness, vulnerability are crucial for the theatre of cruelty performance as you can really express this to the audience to cause discomfort and this will work for our play “ 4.48 Psychosis”.
3. Believed that the audience should feel heightened emotions (theatre of cruelty)
4. Artaud's plays themselves usually have no storyline, but  have many different themes going on at the same time – to confuse and cause discomfort for the audience