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                                                                            AVANT-GARDE THEATRE PRODUCTIONS
                                                                     

AVANT-GARDE THEATRE
PRODUCTIONS
Meyerhold/Cuckold
Above: Meyerhold's 1922 production of The Magnanimous Cuckold; sets by Popova. 
Below: A model of Popova's set for the production.
Cuckold Set 
Meyerhold/Bathhouse
Above: Meyerhold's 1930 production of Mayakovsky's The Bathhouse.
Below: A production of Ernst Toller's 1918 Expressionist play Transformation.
Man and Masses 
 Arturo Ui
Above: A Berliner Ensemble production of Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui,
directed by Heiner Muller.
The Dead Class
Above: The Theatre of Tadeusz Kantor.  Below: Contemporary productions of
Alfred Jarry's Ubu (left) and a play by Michel de Ghelderode (right).
Ubu Ghelderode Production
Butoh Performance 1
Above and below: Contemporary Butoh performers, inspired by Kazuo Ohno.
Butoh Performance 2 
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"Bash is one of the few contemporary playwrights who captures the spirit of surrealism. In fact, surrealist figures from the past, such as Luis Bunuel, Salvador Dali and Paul Eluard, appear as characters in a couple of his plays. Dream-like, funny, and  sometimes rather disturbing, SANCTUS FUMIGACI (which, in English, loosely translates to "Holy Smoke") is recommended for fans of avant garde literature and experimental theater."