caa a22 4500 388094311 CHVBK 20180307125300.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199905 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0266464X00012811 doi S0266464X00012811 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0266464X00012811 Ward Nigel Twelve of the Fifty-One Shocks of Antonin Artaud [Elektronische Daten] [Nigel Ward] In ‘Artaud at Rodez', published in the sixth issue of the original Theatre Quarterly, Charles Marowitz pursued an investigation into the nature of the alleged madness of Antonin Artaud, for which he was confined during the Second World War - eventually being transferred to the asylum at Rodez where he was subjected to electric shock ‘therapy'. Marowitz's article, which later formed the basis for his play of the same title, explored the motivations and responses of those involved: here, Nigel Ward focuses rather on the nature and effects of the treatment itself, inflicted on Artaud no less than fifty-one times - a treatment which, however controversial, was ironically appropriate for the creator of a ‘Theatre of Cruelty' which itself claimed to purge its audience of weaknesses and to heal through shock. Nigel Ward is a tutor on the MA in Performance Studies course at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 New Theatre Quarterly Cambridge University Press 15/2(1999-05), 123-130 0266-464X 15:2<123 1999 15 NTQ https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X00012811 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X00012811 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Ward Nigel NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- New Theatre Quarterly Cambridge University Press 15/2(1999-05), 123-130 0266-464X 15:2<123 1999 15 NTQ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge