Contents:
List of illustrations Contributors Preface Acknowledgements 1. General Introduction: Between theory and practice
Phillip B. Zarrilli Part I Theories and Meditations on Acting 2. Introduction
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 6. The Actor's Emotions Reconsidered: A psychological task-based perspective
Elly Konijn Part II (Re)Considering the Body and Training 7. Introduction
Phillip B. Zarrilli 8. An Amulet Made of Memory: The significance of exercises in the actor's dramaturgy
Eugenio Barba 9. Meyerhold's Biomechanics
Mel Gordon 10. Etienne Decroux's Promethean Mime
Deidre Sklar 11. Actor Training in the Neutral Mask
Sears A. Eldredge and Hollis W. Huston 12. Bali and Grotowski: Some parallels in the training process
I. Wayan Lendra 13. Culture is the Body
Tadashi Suzuki 14. My Bodies: The performer in West Java
Kathy Foley 15. "On the edge of a breath, looking": Cultivating the actor's bodymind through Asian martial/meditation arts
Phillip B. Zarrilli 16. The Gardzenice Theatre Association of Poland
Paul Allain 17. Effector Patterns of Basic Emotions: A psychophysiological method for training actors
Susana Bloch, Pedro Orthous and Guy Santibañez-H Part III (Re)Considering the Actor in Performance 18. Introduction
Phillip B. Zarrilli 19. Brecht and the Contradictory Actor
John Rouse 20. Dario Fo: The roar of the clown
Ron Jenkins 21. Forum Theatre
Augusto Boal 22. Resisting the "Organic": A feminist actor's approach
Lauren Love 23. Rachel Rosenthal Creating Her Selves
Eelka Lampe 24. Task and Vision: Willem Dafoe in LSD
Philip Auslander 25. David Warrilow: Creating symbol and cipher
Laurie Lassiter 26. Robert Wilson and the Actor: Performing in
Danton's Death Ellen Halperin-Royer 27. Anna Deavere Smith: Part I: the World Becomes You: and interview with
Carol Martin; Part II: Acting as Incorporation .
Richard Schechner Notes Bibliography and References Cited Bibliographical Note: Actors speaking on acting Index