Stage set with red paint splatters on a white backdrop and floor, two chairs, a table, hanging lights, and industrial pipes.

Artaud’s The Spurt of Blood detonates conventional narrative with shocking bursts of violence and surreal tableaux, exposing the raw undercurrent of human cruelty and desire. To echo this rupture, the set is a stark white void splashed with vivid red—bloodlike splatters across a bare scrim—juxtaposing purity and brutality. Industrial pipes frame the stage above, suggesting the mechanical, inhuman forces that channel passion into violence. Sparse furniture—a low glass table and two angular chairs—reflects and refracts light, disorienting perception. Overhead, naked Edison bulbs dangle at varying heights, casting harsh, shifting shadows that heighten the play’s hallucinatory, mercurial tone. See more