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The understanding and analysis of the two plays of Samuel Beckett's Rough for Theatre I and Rough for Theatre II from the perspective of the Theatre of Cruelty and the dramatic techniques of Antonin Artaud add more insights into the aforementioned plays. The study aimed to conduct a critical analysis of the two plays using the method of textual analysis. The study identified the various dramatic techniques that Antonin Artaud used in his plays and some of those techniques have been applied to better understand the two plays of Sameul Beckett. The Theory of Cruelty propounded by Artaud in his The Theatre and its Double (1958), was the main platform for analysis. A critique into the two plays revealed the harrowing experiences of the characters involved, even to the point of death, a grave form of cruelty. It also revealed that the objects (props) in the plays have been turned to objects of cruelty and pain. The juxtaposition of the words and the usage of light and sounds interchangeably heightened the sensibility of the audience, as desired by Artaud.