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Theatre and Mind

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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.

Artist / Author Professor Bruce McConachie
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 978-0230275836
Reference P3008
Date 2016

Keywords

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