1. Stagecraft would essentially replace the text; fortified by a myriad of human noises
2. Audience were placed in the centre of the room; swivel chairs were utilised to follow the action. Performers would surround them - make the audience feel trapped.
3. Artaud aspired to reduce or eliminate the stage entirely; would perform in a church or unusual atmosphere.
4. Dialogue and words were reduced or eliminated entirely; Artaud was not text based - used physicality to express meaning and words.
5. There was an emphasis on stagecraft elements; in particular, on sound and light
5.1. Senses were assaulted with movement, light and sound; this was often piercing for the audience
6. Set designs were eliminated from performances
7. Some evidence suggests that film and, or, projection may have been used for performances.
8. Puppets and mannequins effigies were used to create contrast.
9. Juxtaposition between performances; movement and gesture
9.1. Each individual was defined by movement, gesture and dance.
9.2. Wished to create a 'non-verbal' language for theatre
10. Actors were encouraged to openly use emotions that are felt during their performance
11. Communicated performances through "sign" (visual poetry) facial expressions and movement.
12. Artaud aimed to unleash unconscious responses in audience members
13. THEATRE OF CRUELTY FIRST MANIFESTO
13.1. Primary Objective is to subordinate theatre text; to promote a unique theatrical language between gesture and thought; "Here too intervenes (besides the auditory language of sounds) the visual language of objects, movement, attitudes and gestures, but on condition that their meanings, their physiognomies, their combinations be carried to the point of becoming signs, making a kind of alphabet out of these signs" - Artaud
13.2. Theatrical languages creates witch-crafts, encourages voice, uses vibrations and frees meaning from words.
13.3. Language evokes themes such as dreams, crimes, erotic obsessions, savagery, ghosts, cannibalism - desire to show eternal conflict and spasm
13.4. Instruments and vibrations to make new sounds to complement the visual perception
13.5. Added lighting equipment (thinness, density, opaqueness) to produce sensations such as heat, cold, anger, fear.
