Antonin Artaud Edexcel whole-class reading and discussion

whole-class reading and discussion

When choosing the extracts try to cover a wide period of time as this will help students to discuss the changes that took place in the genre throughout the century

space and music from the dramatic medium - Use of a variety of stimuli (factual articles

Use news story / crime case to explore issues of theatricality and crime and punishment and the use of the death penalty

Antonin Artaud Edexcel whole-class reading and discussionAny study of Artaud is problematic. He emerges from his own writing and that of others about him as an enigmatic figure, troubled and tormented, yet highly creative; very much a product of his age but also very much at odds with it. This is what sometimes makes him so difficult to teach to students. The irony is, of course, that much of his thinking influences the very essence of drama as we know it today. The fundamentals of drama teaching all owe a