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Jet of Blood sometimes titled Spurt of Blood was written by Antonin Artaud who was also the founder of the "Theatre of Cruelty" movement. Jet of Blood was completed in Paris, on January 17, 1925, perhaps in its entirety on that day alone. The original title was Jet de Sang ou la Boule de Verre, but the second half of the title was dropped prior to the first publication and production of the work. Artaud presents a fantastic temporal spectrum of creation and destruction speeded up and slowed down, like a phonograph record. Associating gluttony and lust, sex and violence, even innocence and swinishness, Jet of Blood attacks the senses with bizarre sights and sounds as it reaches toward our subconscious impulses and fears.

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Author: Antonin Artaud
Presented by: Aberystwyth Arts Centre's Castaway Community Theatre Company
Director: David Blumfield