In Fernando Arrabal’s film Viva La Muerte (Long Live Death), an image of father and son cuts away to shots of soldiers and rifles. The father is captured at his home while a soldier yells, “Smash the ...

Midway through Fernando Arrabal’s profane clown show The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria, a nearly naked man who’s proclaimed himself Emperor squats over a tin can on a desert island. The only ...