Theater at Harvard-with the possible exception of the Hasty Pudding Club show, which may or may not be theater or at Harvard anyway-is pretty heavy on the French surrealists this week.

Antonin Artaud's The Concl, was written by the man who coined the "theater of cruelty" movement. And the story of The Concl, a murderous, incestuous Roman family of the late sixteenth century, is certainly cruel enough (Shelley used it when he wanted to write a blood-and-thunder Jacobean verse drama). Director Phill Hass is usually good at bright more or less esoteric Continental playwrights to English audiences, and The Concl should be a worthwhile evening. At Lehman Hall, tonight, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and next weekend at 8:30 p.m.

Jean Cocteau led such a fiamboyant life that it tended to overshadow his work. In love with a young motorcyclist at one time he used to follow him around in his chauffeur-driver limousine and vomit each time the led made a dangerous turn, to the delights of meansprited Parisians Orpheus is probably the most theatrically successful of this unsavory man's unusual ouevre. At the Ex, tonight, tomorrow, and Saturday (as well as next weekend) at 7:30 p.m.

Brother Blue is not a French Surrealist, but a "storvteller" who's been featured on Eric Jackson a wee hours show on WBCH in recent weeks WBCN is quite stupid to do this, both Brother Blue and Jackson himself have low deep voices that put me, at least to sleep--preciously what I don't need at 4 a.m. (Which is when Brother Blue comes on). He might be less soporific in person, at a relatively early hour (11:59 p.m.), In the Currier House Senior Common Room Saturday night.

The Hasty Pudding Club show- almost certainly the best in years- continues its run on Holyoke St. Occasionally there are tickets available. Through the end of match. Every night, 8:30 p.m.