Examples of theater plays related to hell?
Posted on January 30th, 2010 by admin
can you give me examples of it and it’s scripts. where I can find it? time duration: not more than 1 hour.. thanks.
I wouldn’t necessarily say it’s related to hell, but ‘Spurt of Blood’ (or ‘Jet of Blood’) by Antonin Artaud is a great surrealist depiction of ‘a hell’. Sample: Young Man: I love you and everything is Beautiful
Young Girl: You love me and everything is beautiful. Young man: I love You. (silence) Face Me……
Young Man: We are intense. How beautifully the world is built. [Silence. There is a noise as if an immense wheel is turning and moving the air. A hurricane separates them. At the same time, two stars are seen colliding, and from them falls a series of legs of living flesh, with feet hands, scalps, masks, colonnades, poticos, temples, alembics, falling more and more slowly, as if in a vacuum; then three scorpions, one after the other and finally a frog and a beetle which come to rest with deperate slowness, nauseating slowness]
As you can imagine, this would be difficult if you tried to follow it to the letter, but Artaud always said the text had become a tyrant over theatre so you can afford to be imaginative.
And I wouldn’t say ‘Spurt of Blood’ was Hell. It’s something much, much worse than that….
Jean-Paul Sartre’s ‘No Exit’ (or No Way Out) is an existentialist play set the a waiting room of Hell.
Both have very different ideas and themes, but I would recommend them both as challenging pieces of theatre to put on. I’m not sure of the length of ‘No Exit’, but ‘Spurt of Blood’ can last anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour I guess.
Hope this helps.
January 30th, 2010 at 8:43 am
I wouldn’t necessarily say it’s related to hell, but ‘Spurt of Blood’ (or ‘Jet of Blood’) by Antonin Artaud is a great surrealist depiction of ‘a hell’. Sample: Young Man: I love you and everything is Beautiful
Young Girl: You love me and everything is beautiful. Young man: I love You. (silence) Face Me……
Young Man: We are intense. How beautifully the world is built. [Silence. There is a noise as if an immense wheel is turning and moving the air. A hurricane separates them. At the same time, two stars are seen colliding, and from them falls a series of legs of living flesh, with feet hands, scalps, masks, colonnades, poticos, temples, alembics, falling more and more slowly, as if in a vacuum; then three scorpions, one after the other and finally a frog and a beetle which come to rest with deperate slowness, nauseating slowness]
As you can imagine, this would be difficult if you tried to follow it to the letter, but Artaud always said the text had become a tyrant over theatre so you can afford to be imaginative.
And I wouldn’t say ‘Spurt of Blood’ was Hell. It’s something much, much worse than that….
Jean-Paul Sartre’s ‘No Exit’ (or No Way Out) is an existentialist play set the a waiting room of Hell.
Both have very different ideas and themes, but I would recommend them both as challenging pieces of theatre to put on. I’m not sure of the length of ‘No Exit’, but ‘Spurt of Blood’ can last anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour I guess.
Hope this helps.
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