Monday 11th November 2013 

Today we learnt about Antonin Artaud his style is theatre of cruelty. He was born 1896 and died 
1948. This form of theatre launches an attack on the audience subconscious in an attempt to release deep-rooted fears and anxieties that normally suppressed.

His Theory was to bring people's deepest fears and emphasising screams and cries making them feel a bit uneasy and feeling a bit sick so i makes people emotional.

At the start of the lesson sir was sat in the middle of the room he was sat all alone and one person in my class moved a chair and sir stood up and moved it back by this time i think all the class were thinking what is going on and then again someone moved the chair sir turned his head and shouted and said just to leave him alone and then the class got really worried and uneasy. At the end sir all spoke to us we just wanted it to stop. Our exercise was that we worked in three's and showed the class one of our dreams to make them feel uneasy and to think why has that happend?

At first when sir was sat on the floor i thought to myself what is he doing but then when he got up and he was silent and he moved the chair back to were it was i was quite scared i did not go near the classroom door at all i did not even go in the classroom and then when we did our dream i felt like my mum and dad had just left me it made me want to cry.

I think that im going to enjoy this style of drama because i like doing the scary performances so i think i will enjoy this and i cant wait to see what we are going to next.


By Aleysha Briggs