TOUT ARTAUD ?!

ARTAUD TO THE MAX
Onstage are Christian Lapointe and 28 complete works by the mythical poet, playwright and actor Antonin Artaud, plus the basic essentials for reading… or surviving, for he will read out loud the poet’s writings non-stop, continuously day and night, until he drops from exhaustion. With the electrifying possibility of breaking the world record for reading aloud – 113 hours and 15 minutes.

Christian Lapointe will be taking Artaud, prophet of the impossible theatre, at his word by becoming an “athlete of the heart”, an actor who “rejects the usual limitations of man”. Artaud, in his hallucinatory language, called for a theatre of cosmic cruelty, a theatre of trance that spoke directly to the nerves, theatre that provides access through its wild, primitive poetry to the sacred mysterious powers that are the driving forces of the universe. Christian Lapointe, a man of integrity and a versatile artist, will plunge heart and soul into this singular initiation rite, an impressive tour de force that opens the door to the searing intensity of Artaud’s theories, an Artaudian act indeed.

PRODUCED BY CHRISTIAN LAPOINTE + PRODUCTIONS RECTO-VERSO
WRITTEN BY ANTONIN ARTAUD
CREATED AND PERFORMED BY CHRISTIAN LAPOINTE

CODIFFUSION THÉÂTRE LA CHAPELLE
PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH LA LIBRAIRIE GALLIMARD DE MONTRÉAL TO SUPPORT THE FONDATION POUR L’ALPHABÉTISATION

WRITTEN BY PAUL LEFEBVRE
TRANSLATED BY NEIL KROETSCH

PREMIERED AT FESTIVAL TRANSAMÉRIQUES, MONTREAL, STARTING ON MAY 23, 2015