"The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything - gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness - rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations. To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre."

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Source : Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.13, Grove Press

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