Two contemporary productions representing the visit of French theatrical visionary Antonin Artaud to Ireland in 1937 are the subject of this paper. One production charted, in a linear fashion, Artaud's journey through Ireland to his eventual deportation, staging along the way representations and embodiments of his delusional state of mind at the time. The second used his epistolary narrative of the events in Ireland as a soundtrack through which to experience an exhibited Artaud in a museum case, living on as an exotic creature forever trapped in both our collective memory and our imagination, haunting and disturbing us. While one re-enacted Artaud's time in Ireland as a performing intervention, the other actually staged the essence of his ...