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Notes on the Theatre of Cruelty

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2021

Extract

Since we weren't casting any particular play and therefore weren't on the lookout for any types, and since our main concern was to find actors who were open, adaptable, and ready to rush in where rigid pros fear to tread, it was necessary to devise a completely new audition technique. I decided to do away with those murky soliloquies where a single actor pulsating with suppressed but crippling hysteria gets up and reels off the same speech he has been carting around since drama school.

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Research Article
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Copyright © The Tulane Drama Review 1966

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