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# Generated: 2026-08-31T16:44:41.635Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Antonin Artaud worked across writing, theatre, and cinema, moving through the European avant-garde of the early twentieth century with a vision that set him apart. He conceptualized the Theatre of Cruelty, a framework that would shape how experimental theatre understood itself long after his death on 4 March 1948. His texts pulled from ancient cosmologies, philosophy, the occult, mysticism, and the ritual practices of indigenous Mexican and Balinese cultures. The work was surreal, transgressive, and raw — less interested in narrative than in tearing through the surface of things. He died at fifty-one, but the influence outlasted the man.