"Actors should be like victims burnt at the stake madly signalling through the flames" - Antoine Artaud
"The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel" - Horace Walpole
"Whether comic or tragic, our performance will be of the kind that
sooner or later produces a forced smile. This is the purpose of our
undertaking. This is the kind of human anguish the spectator must feel
as he leaves our theater. He will be shaken and antagonized by the
internal dynamic of the spectacle that will unfold before his eyes. And
this dynamic will be in direct relation to the anxieties and
preoccupations of his whole life...The illusion that we seek to create
will depend not on the degree of verisimilitude of the action but on the
communicative power and the reality of this action. Each spectacle will
by its very nature become a kind of event."
- Artaud on the Alfred Jarry Theater, Paris,
First Season: 1926-1927
Where does the hero go when the tale is over?