Ignite's Jet of Blood

[PiecesOfRainbow7]

THEATRE OF CRUELTY.

[SudsMcDuff18]

watched this in drama 2day :/ scary as but really good effects and stuff

[gp2razor]

@SudsMcDuff18 Do you go to llantarnam school, per chance?



[SudsMcDuff18]

@gp2razor No i do not lol

[MeeAndChicken]

whats artaud's beef?? jeese some people shouldn't be allowed in public.. thing is people like him still exist!!

[TehWardeh]

This is an amazing peice of theatre.

[JadeBlackFTW]

SO GOOD. I have to perform an original piece in the style of Artaud this term. That keen.

[Jenranaway]

You love me......and everything is beautiful....

[tslebeau]

I dunno, I think it's just free association.

[rtwomey]

sorry... I think the play is totally interesting... I'm just wondering if anyone has another version on line they think is really great?

[rtwomey]

I don't know. So/so. Can anyone recommend another production of this on youtube?

[tomsjones1993]

superb!

[LoffleMe]

augh i am creeped out now

thank you <3

[Snippyboy16]

this is so interesting, and id really want to do something like this for my A2 exam....if only somebody else in my class wanted to aswell :/

[ahamiltonx]

this is insanely amazing!

[MaestraMorte]

this looks.. interesting to say the least.

I'm intrigued!! :]

[Vampirez0Shadow]

GREAT JOB!

[cristina16vnzla]

I saw this play after I had a workshop on Artaud and really did not like it. But now after performing in my own play, Artaud really influenced me and I now appreciate plays like these which portray his conventions and theatre of cruelty :)

[sexycharlie1]

This is awsome!!!! I was shown it in acting and I was cringing like mad!!

[CrassZorro]

One problem I see with this production is its visual language. It seems to be attempting to reenact Artaud's shocking and impossible stage directions for Jet of Blood. But with the shocking and impossible imagery saturating all media today, these gestures, these tableau, rendered so literally, achieve a contrary effect. I might mistake this for a Halloween fun house or a stage prod. of Saw IV. Artaud's work is timeless and it is his ideas which must be explored, not the means to those ideas.

[joachimraginel]

@CrassZorro

Stupid -even if it'S your opinion- answer that seems the one of a PhD guy who believes to much in himself.

So much blabla

But it's just my opinion !

[CrassZorro]

@joachimraginel ---I might suggest you attack my point rather than who I am, or does that seem too academic?

[joachimraginel]

@CrassZorro

Stupid -even if it'S your opinion- answer that seems the one of a PhD guy who believes to much in himself.

So much blabla

But it's just my opinion !

[XxbackstagepassxX]

if you dont know what this video is about, it is about sex and being a virgin, rape, religion being possessed and sexual things. we had to do it in drama and i crapped my self. the man who made it was put in a metal institute!

[MyLittleKristii]

We have to perform this next week, we've only been given it to do today, so we've a week to put it together :|

[rhythmandblues1]

this has been described as the most unplayable play because... well, look at it, it's so ludicrous it's difficult!

[abbiepayne16]

bolloxxxx if you put in enough effort it can be amazing! trust me i've seen first year college productions done AMAZINGLY.

[pinkpony123]

omg its so weird!! we want to use artaud for our A2 performance

[captobvious01]

i didnt quite get it... but then again i dont think your meant to

[iwan1995]

WTFWTFWTF FUCKING HELL

[iamabbieee]

WE JUST DID THIS IN BTEC PERFOMING ARTS it was sooooo much fun but really fucked up looked NOTHING like this peice tho lol about 90% of the class got destinction too ^^ i love Artaud his plays are the best kind of theater although this isn't very artaudian by the looks of it as they don't interact with the audience what so ever and that was a MAAAAAAASSIVE factor in his plays.

[passionate18]

I saw this performance in 2007 and LOVED it!!

[thinydamen]

this video made me cut my wrists. im dead serious

[super7am]

this vid made me shoot up

[sarahj57]

that is amazing!!

[gazzerquin]

Absolutely amazing... I somehow doubt the AS Scripted group doing Jet of Blood are going to pull anything like that off..

[bayles2006]

WOW.

Deep profound, intuitive, emotional response right there. If only you could do it like that live.

[karlboyd]

i love artaud! so much you can play with on stage! and so much you can get across!

[VonCouch]

Performing this play is like trying to dictate a schizophrenic's memoirs. That being said, this is a very interesting adaptation and one that I think plays with the themes quite well.

[SomeKnowMeAsWesto]

really enjoyed it, i thought they did a very good job :-)

[KirstyLovesRides]

Ahh..

[iLOVEartaud]

You're an idiot if you chose to perform an Artaud play/whatever the fuck it is. x

P.s. How's drama sarah?

[iLOVEartaud]

Hello Sarah.

[OhioImpromptu]

O, Artaud....

[thetalentedmremm]

this was a very skilled and effective attempt at what is an impossible piece to perform

it's very difficult to stay 100% true to Artaud's theories because they condtradict each other

so give these guys a break

[carlyLementsjb]

hey sam... :D i'm not feelin this video lol.... omg exam tomorrow!!!!!

[jOSullivan3]

I thought this was very good.

[nmille]

This is nothing more than insulting to Artaud. You obviously have very little knowledge of his work - pick up a copy of Theatre and Its Double sometime and read it!

1 - Cruelty does not equate horror;

2 - You completely ignore the rhythm of the text -;

3 - You simply aim to entertain like some sort of theme ride at Disney.

4 - learn how to use your 'scream box'

oh dear... 'illegitimate sons' indeed. If you're doing A'levels please don't use this video as a point of reference.

[HiMyNameIsWilll]

Frankly, i agree. Saying that though, Artaud had issues keeping his hold on reality, so it can be seen as anyones guess as to what in hecks name he wanted it to actually look like.

Still, awful piece imo.

[HiMyNameIsWilll]

Although growing on me a bit.

He was really effed up though.

Sucks to be trying to right an essay on this =|

[Schemilix]

Pompous creature. Do it better yourself, then.

[jamesgreen59]

what's with the whole making it look like a horror movie thing with the rewinding and the screeching?? that obviously didn't happen in the theatre live so why do it in the video?

[BuddinTheAmazing]

I really think that there is only one appropriate response to this: ?

[crazyluv12]

i'm officially scared shitless!!

[lukewilson14]

artaud is awesum !! were doin this for our A level piece but a lot better !!he he

we will post our final piece once its's done:D

[simonjeffery13]

God, i hate Artaud.

[dell66]

Amazing, its so complete i could cry. Iv always wondered how this would turn out on stage.

Hmm im working on my A level performance of the skriker at the moment and am trying to make it as artaudian as possible. Any tips would be fab haha :D x

[georges3601]

Nectanglen: Er... not quite. See, Artaud believed that human beings were, by nature, savage beasts. Thus, civilisation is ultimately a false reality. He believed that his theatre of cruelty would tear apart this false reality by a. invoking a cathartic reaction to his blood 'n guts 'n nudity, and b. invoking a ressurection of the spectators' long-dormant bestial selves.

[melanata]

I'MIN LUV VEHVE

[EeveeHope]

Wow...that was, AMAZING! It scared the shit out of me!! The part where she fits her fist in her mouth *shivers* Now I know what Artaud meant by 'Total Theatre'

[loner1878]

Saw this im my theatre class. This earned a big WTF? from everyone in my class

[nectanglen]

nectans daughter: grinlord: Artaud wished to express the underlying plauges in society. he shows a ordinary life, then its tornapart by bad things that we know in society, like rape etc in a violent animal way, for example the raping of girl and the imagery in her eating her fist. The reason for the explicit nature is that he wanted the spectators to feel abused,disrupted by his message that they have a different outlook on their own life I hope that helps.

[Rhodyfly]

Thank you. this brief explanation actually helped me out a lot. I was trying like hell to look at the play and understand what the intention of dramatizing something like this was. It's tempting to dismiss something when you don't understand it and I didn't want to fall into that trap. I sincerely wanted to understand where Artud was coming from...and after reading this I think I do. Thanks again...for shedding some much needed light on this.

[Grinlord]

this play is bizarre. I don't really understand it. Can someone explain to me their interpretation?

[mikebott]

the original calls for nudity doesn't it ?

not bad, but resembles 'inland empire' a little too much for me.

[DvilsAngel117790]

OMG!!!! That is so cool!!!!

[StevieHoopsLive]

it means if you can fit your fist into your mouth your cool

[olcgizmo]

We did this in our class last week and it was nothing like this. It's good to see the different interpretations.

[njforrouk]

Well I never I thought this unstageable. How do you make stage directions like 'scorpions crawl from her sex' work??? Well, this is it, Artards only complete play... Who would have guessed he had mental illness from this... You know...I think on balance...I'll stick with Shakespeare...all the creulty and suffering is a bit much for my delicate sensiblilities!

[fgfgfhghgf464]

HELP!! i have to figure out what THIS video means by tommorow and i cant!

im so shallow.

what does it mean?

[Gojiraking]

Who the hell thinks this is art, art is good you sick wierdos.

[Hallhappy07]

this is ART! i love it!!

[CaptainFrenzy]

We had to do a stage version at college and blindfolded the audience on the way in and did the whole piece just with sound, touch and smell. A couple of people got too freaked out to last until the end.

[lainefable]

excelente!!!

[mechleon]

Terrific rendition of the piece.

[fishwhispererus]

thanky you very much.

[dovell138]

I have always wanted to see this. Thank you for posting!