The Maid

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" In The Theater and Its Double Antonin Artaud proposed a 'theater of cruelty' in which "violent physical images pulverize, mesmerize the audience's sensibility, caught in the drama as if in a vortex of higher forces" (63). He held that a new kind of play was needed, one that would depart from the standard word-based, dialogue-bound plays that had dominated Western theater for many centuries. In place of this type of play Artaud suggested a theater in which the specifically theatrical elements of a play's presentation--visual, aural, spatial, as opposed to mere lines of dialogue--be given the primary role. He held that incantation, ritual, exaggeration and fresh combinations of effects would provide the surprise and shock that would generate a visceral reaction in audiences for whom the spectacle would be meaningful as traditional plays no longer were. Artaud seldom.."

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