Nägele, Rainer

The Other Stage: Between Brecht and Artaud - 2004.


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Against the conventional view that tends to oppose Brecht’s “rational” and political theater to Artaud’s “irrational” and supposedly apolitical theater, this essay tries to elaborate a more complex interrelation between their two visions of the theater, and shows a constellation of similarities and subtle differences between two seemingly very different playwrights.