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  1. A theory advanced by Antonin Artaud in his
  2. book Le Theatre et son double 1938 and
  3. adopted by a number of writers and directors.
  4. It aims to shock the audience into an
  5. awareness of basic, primitive human nature
  6. through the release of feelings usually
  7. repressed by conventional behaviour.
  8.