ARTAUD Antonin. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED to Marcel... Lot 21

ARTAUD Antonin. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED to Marcel DALIO. Paris, June 27, 1932. 6 pages in-4 in ink on Le Dôme café bar letterhead, envelope retained. Fraternal letter concerning Artaud's theater projects addressed to Marcel Dalio, who was to become a famous actor ranging from the lead role in Jean Renoir's masterpiece La Règle du jeu to important secondary roles in Hollywood. .... I found it quite humorous that you asked me if I intended to make an art theater, because it seems to me that by definition this very risk is ruled out. An art theater can only be a theater on the side, but a theater that leads to the demolition of everything in order to get back to basics... of course we could come to a mathematical fine-tuning of the realizations we would attempt if the actors were willing to follow scrupulously the indications I would give them. In other words, these shows would have certain staging procedures, and it's under my direction that the actors will be called upon to realize them. And so I need a man, but a wonderful man who will be able to bring about truly revolutionary achievements in the practical and financial fields, as revolutionary as those you and I have recognized as possible and even necessary in the artistic, plastic and ideological fields... There's nothing to stop this man from being you.