This is symbolised in Octave Mirbeau, who had to perform a continual balancing act with his plays: on the one hand, they had to convey his deeply radical anarchist messages, whilst on the other, they had equally to provide sufficient non-didactic entertainment to please both theatre producers and theatregoing crowds. ... For the Futurists, the dialectic between art and life was resolved through full integration to the point of inversion, whereby ordinary life became the subject matter of art on-stage, as seen in Passatism, whilst art became deeply rooted into the lives of Futurists off-stage. ...

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