Acting (Re)Considered: A Theoretical and Practical Guide (Worlds of Performance A Routledge/TDR Series) Book

	List of Illustrations
	Contributors
	Preface
	Acknowledgements
1	General Introduction: Between theory and practice	1
Pt. I	Theories of and Meditations on Acting
2	Introduction	7
3	The Actor's Presence: Three phenomenal modes	23
4	On Acting and Not-Acting	40
5	"Just Be Your Self": Logocentrism and difference in performance theory	53
6	The Actor's Emotions Reconsidered: A psychological task-based perspective	62
Pt. II	(Re)Considering the Body and Training
7	Introduction	85
8	An Amulet Made of Memory: The significance of exercises in the actor's dramaturgy	99
9	Meyerhold's Biomechanics	106
10	Etienne Decroux's Promethean Mime	129
11	Actor Training in the Neutral Mask	140
12	Bali and Grotowski: Some parallels in the training process	148
13	Culture is the Body	163
14	My Bodies: The performer in West Java	168
15	"On the edge of a breath, looking": Cultivating the actor's bodymind through Asian martial/meditation arts	181
16	The Gardzienice Theatre Association of Poland	200
17	Effector Patterns of Basic Emotions: A psychophysiological method for training actors	219
Pt. III	(Re)Considering the Actor in Performance
18	Introduction	241
19	Brecht and the Contradictory Actor	248
20	Dario Fo: The roar of the clown	260
21	Forum Theatre	268
22	Resisting the "Organic": A feminist actor's approach	277
23	Rachel Rosenthal Creating Her Selves	291
24	Task and Vision: Willem Dafoe in LSD	305
25	David Warrilow: Creating symbol and cypher	311
26	Robert Wilson and the Actor: Performing in Danton's Death	319
27	Anna Deavere Smith	334
Pt. I	The Word Becomes You: an Interview
Pt. II	Acting as Incorporation
	Notes	345
	Bibliography and References Cited	363
	Bibliographical Note: Actors speaking on acting	388
	Index	389