Collected Works (volume 2)

COLLECTED WORKS OF ANTONIN ARTAUD VOLUME TWO Previously published VOLUME ONE Correspondence with Jacques Riviere Umbilical Limbo Nerve Scales Art and Death Unpublished Prose and Poetry THE CENCI THE THEATRE AND ITS DOUBLE In preparation VOLUME THREE Scenarios On the Cinema Interviews Letters VOLUME FOUR The Theatre and its Double The Cenci Documents on the Theatre and its Double Documents on The Cenci ANTONIN ARTAUD COLLECTED WORKS VOLUME TWO Translated by Victor Corti THE ALFRED JARRY THEATRE TWO STAGE SCENARIOS AND TWO PRODUCTION PLANS REVIEWS ON LITERATURE AND THE PLASTIC ARTS CALDER & BOY ARS · LONDON First published in Great Britain in 1971 by Calder and Boyars Ltd 18 Brewer Street London W1 Originally published as Antonin Artaud: Oeuvres Completes, Tome 11 by Editions Gallimard, Paris 1961 © Editions Gallimard, 1961 © This translation, Calder and Boyars Ltd, 1971 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ISBN o 7145 0171 9 cloth edition ISBN o 7145 0172 7 paper edition Any paperback edition of this book whether published simultaneously with, or subsequent to, the hard bound edition is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise disposed of, without the publishers' consent, in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is p ublished . Printed in Great Britain by Western Printing Services Ltd, Bristol CONTENTS 7 INTRODUCTION THE ALFRED JARRY THEATRE The Alfred Jarry Theatre ( 1 926) The Alfred Jarry Theatre ( 1 926-2 7 season) Manifesto for an Abortive Theatre The Alfred Jarry Theatre ( 1 928 season) The Alfred Jarry Theatre ( 1 929) The Alfred Jarry Theatre and Public Hostility Letter to Ida Mortemart alias Domenica Letter to Ida Mortemart (Second Version) Strindberg's A Dream Play : Programme Notes A MIME PLAY AND A STAGE SYNOPSIS The Philosopher's Stone There is no more Firmament "Suggested act in street . . . " 73 79 93 TWO PRODUCTION PLANS 97 Production plan for Strindberg's The Ghost Sonata Production plan for Le Coup de Trafalgar, a middle-class 1 06 play in 4 Acts by Roger Vitrac · NOTES ON ' THE TRICKSTERS ' BY STEVE PASSEUR I 19 REVIEWS At the Theatre de I' Oeuvre Charles Dullin's I' Atelier L'Atelier Theatre Carmosine at I'Atelier Six Characters in Search of an Author at the Comedic des Champs-Elysees The Secrets of Love, by Roger Vitrac The Tricksters by Steve Passeur at I' Atelier The Theatre Strike 127 1 28 1 30 1 33 1 34 1 36 1 38 1 42 143 Subway at Studio des Champs-Elysees 1 44 Le Coup de Trafalgar by Roger Vitrac at l'Atelier 147 Annabella at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees Shakespeare's As rOU Like It at the Theatre des Champs1 48 Elysees ABOUT A LOST PLAY "With decentralisation as a goal . . . " " . . . a portrait of the period . . " "The Wrath of Heaven " . . . . 151 1 53 1 54 ON LITERATURE AND THE PLASTIC ARTS Big Stores and Little Taste A Profile of the Autumn Salon Expression at the Salon des Independ ants A Pre-Dadaist's Remarks Men and their Work A Visit to Fraye the painter Lugne-Poe and Painting The Spring Salons Maurice Magre and Enchantment Pierre Mac Orlan and Adventure Stories The XIVth Autumn Salon Ungracious Elsa by Pierre Mac Orlan Cynosure by Celine Arnauld " In none of the Paris Galleries . . " Letter from Paris Matha and the Enthusiast by Jean de Bosschere Handji by Robert Poulet Magic in Ancient Egypt by Fran�ois Lexa The Cup of Gold by Ludwig Tieck A Curious Person's Copy Book by Lise Deharme Satan the Obscure by Jean de Bosschere Balthus Exhibition at