I think the use of 'Theater of Cruelty' is used well in our play, however, it could be included slightly more because, I believe that we could use more physical theater throughout our own devised pieces in order to get across Artaud's theater ideology.
However, in order to make it more Artaud, we then included our own sister rival scenes, which is a whole physical theater piece, therefore, from the start the audience should be able to see that our performance is a mixture of physically devised theater.
I think that this works in our performance because straight away we are breaking the traditional theater themes, as we perform around the space and the audience have to walk through our performance, which means that they are included straight away.
Furthermore, the things that also work in our performance is the use of taboo topics throughout our devised scenes. This use of theater of cruelty also breaks the conventions of a traditional theater, which Antonin Artaud really fought against.
In our 'wonder' piece, the thing that works well throughout is the use of different rooms each including a different scene from 'Alice in Wonderland', the reason why I think this works well is because firstly, the audience are guided by certain people in our group, for example, me and Saffia guide the audience to the 'courtroom' scene, but we do this in an Artaud way by making the transition into a market, where we will shock and surprise the audience.
From this I've learnt that audience can be included through a whole performance even during transitions from one place to another in an Artaud way which includes 'theater of cruelty'.
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