"Poets are precious allies, and their testimony must be taken into careful consideration, since they generally know a multitude of things between heaven and earth that our academic knowledge does not even suspect. Especially in the human sciences, they have far surpassed us mere mortals, since they draw on sources that have not yet been opened to science." (Sigmund Freud). The life of Antonin Artaud, French actor and playwright, told to children. He was just eighteen when he was taken to a mental asylum, and there, he would spend much of his life on and off. "The Theatre of Cruelty," for which Antonin Artaud would become universally famous, was conceived by the great playwright as art therapy, with its miraculous power for himself and for the spectators. Theatre as a journey, dictated by the unconscious, with body and mind, in search of a magical and at the same time real way to be reborn. "And how could a soul like yours, so restless and feverish, so passionate and vibrant, fail to approach that art form that, more than any other, delves deep into the human being: theater. Because for you, living meant entering into the mystery of life, into the emotions that permeate and overwhelm it. And pushing further. Beyond yourself, beyond others, beyond universal constraints. Emerging, each time, exhausted but purified."