Studying Antonin Artaud

In this week's lesson we focused mainly on Antonin Artaud. We explored more into his life. I found it shocking that he wasn't wealthy at all, and that he often spent nights on the streets because he couldn't afford a place to stay. It was only after he died that he was seen for his brilliance. I love the thought of being ahead of time. In the warm up we were asked to do different stretches, this made me realise that I am not flexible at all. Doing different warm ups highlights my good and bad aspects. We then learnt more about Artonin Artaud and how he was diagnosed with different mental illnesses. Personally I think they diagnosed him as mental because they couldn't explain his genius. Sir told us how Artaud knew the theatre wasn't a place to act normally, it was a place to express things in an abstract way.