by Joe Woodward | Feb 16, 2019 | Artaud, critical theatre
I saw a show the other night. Lots of people looked terribly serious. They were important people. Their importance was obvious. They held their cheeks in a most important way. And for some, it was in the way they drew attention to the management that their importance... 
by Joe Woodward | Jan 4, 2019 | Artaud, Creative Process
(Originally published in Scream: January 2005; revised 5 January 2019) Workshops on Antonin Artaud’s contradictory Theatre of Cruelty involve more than the development of techniques and approaches to theatre practice, development and presentation. While there... 
by Joe Woodward | Dec 10, 2018 | Artaud, critical theatre, Uncategorized
THE MINDSET OF “GEESE” and a cultural allegory of a leftist mindset from revolt to obliteration The mindset of the 2002 Bali bombers is more understandable when considered in light of the radical mindset of an extreme revolutionary activist from any time... 
by Joe Woodward | Nov 5, 2017 | Artaud, Uncategorized
Trinculo confronts himself in front of his invited audience to elicit a phenomenology of theatre making Living in a street called Trinculo Place added to the creation of an alter-ego that grew from a jester in Shakespeare’s The Tempest. I used Trinculo as an...