Theatre and Mind
Author | : Bruce McConachie |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2012-12-07 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781137015617 |
ISBN-13 | : 1137015616 |
Rating | : 4/5 (616 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Theatre and Mind by : Bruce McConachie
Download or read book Theatre and Mind written by Bruce McConachie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-07 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.