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Title Acting (re)considered : theories and practices / edited by Phillip B. Zarrilli
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1995

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Description xviii, 378 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Worlds of performance
Worlds of performance.
Contents 1. General Introduction: Between theory and practice / Phillip B. Zarrilli -- 3. The Actor's Presence: Three phenomenal modes / Bert O. States -- 4. On Acting and Not-Acting / Michael Kirby -- 5. "Just Be Your Self": Logocentrism and difference in performance theory / Philip Auslander -- 7. Meyerhold's Biomechanics / Mel Gordon -- 8. Etienne Decroux's Promethean Mime / Deidre Sklar -- 9. Actor Training in the Neutral Mask / Sears A. Eldredge and Hollis W. Huston -- 10. Eastern and Western Influences on Performer Training at Eugenio Barba's Odin Teatret / Ian Watson -- 11. Bali and Grotowski: Some parallels in the training process / I Wayan Lendra -- 12. Culture is the Body / Tadashi Suzuki -- 13. My Bodies: The performer in West Java / Kathy Foley -- 14. "On the edge of a breath, looking": Disciplining the actor's bodymind through the Martial Arts in the Asian/Experimental Theatre Program / Phillip B. Zarrilli
15. Effector Patterns of Basic Emotions: A psychophysiological method for training actors / Susana Bloch, Pedro Orthous and Guy Santibanez-H -- 16. Introduction / Phillip B. Zarrilli -- 17. Brecht and the Contradictory Actor / John Rouse -- 18. Dario Fo: The roar of the clown / Ron Jenkins -- 19. Forum Theatre / Augusto Boal -- 20. An Epic System / Duane Krause -- 21. Resisting the "Organic": A feminist actor's approach / Lauren Love -- 22. Rachel Rosenthal Creating Her Selves / Eelka Lampe -- 23. Task and Vision: Willem Dafoe in LSD / Philip Auslander -- 24. David Warrilow: Creating Symbol and Cypher / Laurie Lassiter
Summary "Acting (Re)Considered is an exceptionally wide-ranging collection of theories on acting, ideas about the body and training, and statements about the actor in performance. Included are discussions on acting by or about major figures who have shaped nineteenth and twentieth-century performance ..."--Provided by publisher (inside book)
Analysis Acting
Acting
Notes Bibliography: p341-364. _ Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [341]-364) and index
Subject Acting -- Theory -- Essays
Acting -- 19th century.
Acting -- 20th century.
Acting.
Author Zarrilli, Phillip B., 1947-
LC no. 93048186
ISBN 0415098580
0415098599 (paperback)
Other Titles Acting reconsidered
Acting reconsidered