of his contemporaries, a surrealist named Armand Salacrou. La Boule de Verre has many apparent correlations with Jet de Sang. In both plays the four main characters are the Young Man, the Young Girl, a Knight, and a Nurse. In La Boule de Verre, as in Le Jet de Sang, the young couple exchanges declarations of love, then the couples disappear. The Knight and Nurse reveal they are the Young Girl's parents as well in La Boule de Verre, and the Knight picks up candy wrappers instead of wrapped cheese. There are other associations between the characters in both plays, including the anachronism of the Knight, dependence of the Nurse (Wetnurse), fidelity of the Young Girl, and the idealism of the Young Man (Cohn, 315). Publication and Production History When Jet of Blood was written in 1925, it was included with Artaud's other writings Paul les Oiseaux and Le Vitre d’Amour in a folder labeled Trois Contes. After its completion, Jet of Blood was not mentioned in Artaud's published letters, nor was it discussed by his acquaintances or biographers. Despite this apparent omission, Artaud included the play in his second book L’Ombilic de Limbes, published by the Nouvelle Revue Francaise. There are several published translations, including English translations by Ruby Cohn, Victor Corti, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Helen Weaver, and George Wellwarth. The 1926 publicity blurb for Artaud's Theatre Alfred Jarry listed the premiere of Jet of Blood in their season. However the production was never mounted. The first production took place almost 40 years after it was written, during the Royal Shakespeare Company 'Season of Cruelty' in 1964. Ruby Cohn's translation of Jet of Blood was the inspiration for Worship, the concluding scene of the stage play Gospel. Macabre Theatre Ensemble staged the production in 2013 in Ithaca, NY. The production was co-directed by Owen McIlmail and Sean Pollock. New York-based performance ensemble FOLD staged an adaptation of the work in October 2015. The production was directed by Etienne Pierre Duguay and took place at Manhattan's Albertine, a project of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. [1] [2] [3] Montreal-based performance theatre creator, Marissa Blair, presented Antonin Artaud's SPURT OF BLOOD at the St.-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival 2019 at The Freestanding Room. [1] Bibliography Benedikt, Michael and George E Wellwarth. Modern French Theatre: An Anthology of Plays. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1966. Cardullo, Bert and Robert Knopf. Theatre