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From: The Washington Post | Date: April 16, 1995 | Copyright information

This handsome actor, poet, director and theorist of the theater had a profound influence on such celebrated stage directors as Jerzy Grotowski, Jean-Louis Barrault and Peter Brook. Born in Marseille in 1896, he died in 1948 after spending nine years in various mental asylums. Departing from traditional Western concepts of drama, he espoused a "theater of cruelty" which emphasized nonverbal communications such as the symbolic movement or gesture and the use of shapes and colors. Through an ena...

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