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On this day in 1936, Artaud's boat, en route to Mexico, docked temporarily in North America. He took the opportunity to write and post a letter to his friend and publisher Jean Paulhan. #OTDArtaud 🧵
He uses notepaper headed 'la Cie Gel Transatlantique, French Line'. In this letter he informs Paulhan of the title he has decided for the compilation of letters and essays that he had deposited for publication before leaving France. It is to be called 'The Theatre and its Double'
'because if the theatre doubles life, then life doubles the true theatre, and that has nothing to do with Oscar Wilde’s ideas about art. This title speaks to all the doubles of the theatre that I have believed to have found throughout these years: metaphysics, plague, cruelty,
On this day in 1944, Roger Blin in Paris wrote a letter to his friend Antonin Artaud in the Rodez hospital in the south of France. Blin had been Artaud's assistant director on The Cenci project nine years before. #OTDArtaud 🧵
'My very dear Artaud, It is with great emotion that I learned from Anne Mason that you wish to see me. I unfortunately cannot travel to Rodez just now. I'm acting in a Norwegian play at the Vieux-Colombier... Believe that you are in my thoughts. Please forgive us what must seem
... like us abandoning you, though I call to you in my heart incessantly.' Artaud had asked after Blin and sought his address in letters to Anne Mason of 27 December and 4 January.
On this day in 1925, at the Réunion générale des Surréalistes, Antonin Artaud was nominated Director of the Bureau de recherches surréalistes. #OTDArtaud 🧵
'Notice: In order to pursue more direct, more effective action, it has been decided that from the 30 January the Bureau de recherches surréalistes will be closed to the public. Antonin Artaud from this time assumes the directorship of the bureau...
... A collection of focussed projects and demonstrations, which different committees are working on presently in collaboration with A. Artaud, will be published in the third edition of la Révolution Surréaliste.' According to Michel Leiris, Artaud then added a final sentence:
