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Futurism in theatre

The image of the bullet is a strong one, revealing the futurist preoccupation with everything technological and warlike. .
             Futurist playwrights were also interested in breaking down the fourth wall and directly addressing the audience in order to shock and influence the people into action. Looking at Bruno Corra and Emilio Settimelli's Grey+Red+Violet+Orange we have a good example of how the futurist playwright aimed to manipulate the spectator into their way of thinking through this technique. The play begins with a patient who is bandaged, at a hospital with his mother. A doctor enters and begins to examine the patient's wounds. All this is done quite systematically and conventionally until the patient suddenly, and without warning, jumps up from his chair and starts to scream and shout at someone in the audience, accusing them of having killed his brother. Stagehands and others from the wings run on to try to restrain the patient, (or the actor playing the part of the patient!) from attacking the member of the audience. One imagines that this would indeed cause rather a stir in the audience, not knowing for sure whether or not this was part of the play but in a way this is the desired effect from a futurist point of view.
             They want people to question the normal, conventional ideas of theatre, to realise that they can change things themselves with the will and determination to do so, to act with force and take control. The end of the scene has the patient returning to address the audience, apparently cured and while before he was bearded with long hair, is now clean shaven and ready to conform to the old ideologies of traditional theatre:.
             HEALED PATIENT: No! don't inconvenience yourselves, ladies and gentlemen! Forget it! Now I remember, the murderer of my brother had one eye less the gentleman has both of his excuse me we shall begin the performance immediately. (With a sigh.


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