Antonin Artaud Edexcel liberating and challenging

liberating and challenging

To record their practical findings in their exploration notes

When choosing the extracts try to cover a wide period of time as this will help students to discuss the changes that took place in the genre throughout the century

whole-class reading and discussion

and the pathway from imaginative improvisation to polished devised pieces

Antonin Artaud Edexcel liberating and challengingAny study of Artaud is problematic. He emerges from his own writing and that of others about him as an enigmatic figure, troubled and tormented, yet highly creative; very much a product of his age but also very much at odds with it. This is what sometimes makes him so difficult to teach to students. The irony is, of course, that much of his thinking influences the very essence of drama as we know it today. The fundamentals of drama teaching all owe a