What Is Cruelty?

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The theater cruelty is a confrontational style that aims to shock, unnerve, and disturb the audience. According to Wikipedia, "The theater of cruelty is a form of theatre developed by avant-garde playwright, actor, essayist, and theorist, Antonin Artaud, in The Theatre and its Double." It was a major influence on avant-garde 20th-century theatre. The Theater of Cruelty can be also seen as the break with traditional Western theatre, and a means by which artist assault the sense of the audience and allow them to feel the unexpressed emotions of the subconscious. Artaud was able to produce only on a play in his lifetime that reflected the tenets of the Theatre of Cruelty, works of many theatre artists reflect his theories. These artists are Jean

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