Antoine Artaud was born n 1896 in France he had Greek ancestors and he really took hold of that as a idea for theatre work.Interesting story of his life was he was made to join the french army how ever he was let off the force as he was proun to sleep walking . He moved to Paris to follow the dream of writing but instead he found a passion for directing he did continue to write and do poems and did eventually get published but not for that reason of his writing but because of his life. through his life producing and directing plays along side other great directors of the time he also found a love for cinema. Artuad in his life was arrested and places in straight jacket after traveling to Ireland and getting kicked out then believed he was being attacked and reacted by attacking back. the end of his life was spent in different insane asylums and when France was attacked by Nazi's his friends had him transferred to some where safe. He did continue to write after this.