During the 1920s, this was actually a popular location
for the likes of Joyce, Hemingway, André Gide, and Antonin Artaud.
In the"Declaration of January 27, 1925" for example, members of the Paris-based Bureau of Surrealist Research(including André Breton, Louis Aragon, and,
Antonin Artaud, as well as some two dozen others)
declared their affinity for revolutionary politics.
Theorising a new theatrical form that would be immediate and direct, that would link the unconscious minds of performers and
spectators in a sort of ritual event, Artaud created the Theatre of Crueltyin which emotions,
feelings, and the metaphysical were expressed not through language but physically, creating a mythological, archetypal, allegorical vision, closely related to the world of dreams.
Theorising a new theatrical form that would be immediate and direct, that would link the unconscious minds of performers and
spectators in a sort of ritual event, Artaud created the Theatre of Cruelty,
in which emotions, feelings, and the metaphysical were expressed not through language but physically, creating a mythological, archetypal, allegorical vision, closely related to the world of dreams.