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From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism
Artist/Author: Philip Auslander | Reference: P3503 | ISBN: 978-0415157870 | Type: Publication

Surveys the changes in acting and performance during the crucial transition from the ecstatic theatre of the 1960s to the ironic postmodernism of the 1980s.

acting actor Antonin Artaud archetype Arthur Miller audience Bertolt Brecht body capitalism choreography cultural theory culture dance Denise Collier difference experience Fredric Jameson gender identity ideology interpretation irony Jerzy Grotowski joke Kate Bornstein Konstantin Stanislavski language Meredith Monk minimalism modernism narrative ORLAN performance Peter Brook political art politics presence resistance Richard Schechner Rosanne Barr self stand-up subjectivity Susan Foster theatre Vito Acconci Willem Dafoe women Wooster Group

The Grotowski Sourcebook
Editor: Richard Schechner and Lisa Wolford | Reference: P3303 | ISBN: 978-0415131117 | Type: Publication

The first volume to provide a comprehensive overview of Jerzy Grotowski’s long and multi-faceted career.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

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Theatre and Mind
Artist/Author: Professor Bruce McConachie | Reference: P3008 | ISBN: 978-0230275836

All performance depends upon our abilities to create, perceive, remember, imagine and empathize. This book provides an introduction to the evolutionary and cognitive foundations of theatrical performing and spectating and argues that this scientific perspective challenges some of the major assumptions about what takes place in the theatre.

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Theatre and Time
Artist/Author: David Wiles | Reference: P3004 | ISBN: 978-1137343864 | Type: Publication

Explores how different concepts of time – including linear clock time, the cyclical time of the planets and seasons, the rhythms of the body and individual memories – have impacted on and been reinforced by theatre throughout history, from medieval times to the present day.

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