Appropriate Quote by Antonin Artaud

“Like all magic cultures expressed by appropriate hieroglyphs, the true theater has its shadows too, and, of all languages and all arts, the theater is the only one left whose shadows have shattered their limitations.”

Antonin Artaud

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