The Revolt of the Senses

Writing
Written By L.M. Bogad

“The Revolt of the Senses: Hallucination, Revelation and Resistance in Antonio Buero-Vallejo’s The Foundation,”in Images of Mental Illness through Text and Performance, ed. Sarah Randolph.Lewiston, NY: Mellen Press, 2005:  63-71.Antonio Buero-Vallejo was the Vaclav Havel of Fascist Spain, a powerful dissident playwright and a great dramatic innovator.  This piece discusses his “immersion effect” with which he embedded the audience in the delusions and subjectivities of his protagonists.

L.M. Bogad

Bogad writes, performs, and strategizes with mischievous artists such as the Yes Men, Agit-Pop, and La Pocha Nostra. He is a veteran of the Lincoln Center Theatre Director’s Laboratory, and a co-founder of the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army.

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