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Indicate how the influences and ideas of other playwrights and/or directors, designers and performers (i.e. practitioners) have been used.
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Indicate how the influences and ideas of other playwrights and/or directors, designers and performers (i.e. practitioners) have been used. Antonin Artaud was the creator of the 'Theatre of Cruelty'; Artaud was attempting to change the view of the word and society as he now thought that the world of theatre had become nothing but an empty shell. Artaud believed that the Theatre should affect the audience as much as possible, therefore he used a mixture of strange and disturbing forms of lighting, sound and performance. He aimed to affect audiences on an entirely non-rational level. We liked this idea as we wanted the audience to feel intimidated, and figured this technique would work well to keep them interested. We used Artaud's work in a few scenes. Firstly in the scene after the child has been kidnapped. Our intention in that scene was to provoke an emotion from the audience. So in the...
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