theatre of cruelty

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He was heavily influenced by Antonin Artaud's ideas for a Theatre of Cruelty, putting on a season of plays in London in 1964.

From BBC

Sissy Spacek is the bullied teen with telekinetic powers in this parable of bullying and misogyny, which is also a brilliant satire of high school, particularly the prom as a theatre of cruelty and anxiety.

From The Guardian

The appointment of the latter led to the controversial Theatre of Cruelty season in 1964.

From BBC

From Craig’s original discourses on the “emotional depth” of the character to the declaration that he would rather “slash my wrists” than play Bond again, the cumulative effect has cast the process of Being James Bond as slightly more spiritually immersive than doing Theatre of Cruelty for a six-month run inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

From The Guardian

But perhaps for the first time there is also a hint of ordinary human heartbreak, someone whose fears and motivations might exist in the real world, or at any rate some world other than the director's usual nightmarish theatre of cruelty.

From The Guardian