The purpose of playing : modern acting theories in perspective /
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| Author / Creator: | Gordon, Robert, 1951 November 28- |
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| Imprint: | Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2006. |
| Description: | 418 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Theater--theory/text/performance |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6104219 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Nineteenth-Century Acting
- Chapter 2. Acting as Psychological Truth: Stanislavski's Legacy
- Chapter 3. The Actor as Scenographic Instrument
- Chapter 4. The Legacy of Jacques Copeau
- Chapter 5. Michel Saint-Denis and the English Tradition
- Chapter 6. British Approaches to the Teaching of Speech and Movement
- Chapter 7. Improvisation and Games for Devising and for Performer Training
- Chapter 8. Brechtian Theater as Political Praxis
- Chapter 9. Augusto Boal and the Theater of the Oppressed
- Chapter 10. Antonin Artaud, the Actor's Body, and the Space of Performance
- Chapter 11. Jerzy Grotowski
- Chapter 12. From Personal Encounter to Cultural Exchange: The Theaters of Peter Brook
- Chapter 13. Performance as Cultural Exchange: Eugenio Barba and Theater Anthropology
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
