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The Active Text

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

The Active Text

By Dymphna Callery

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About the book

Many theatre practitioners think of physical theatre as one thing and text-based theatre as another. In this book, Dymphna Callery, author of Through the Body: A practical guide to physical theatre, shows how exercises and rehearsal techniques associated with physical and devised theatre can be applied to scripted plays. Working 'through the body' enables performers to discover what really makes a play work. Drawing on key practitioners, including Jacques Lecoq, Joan Littlewood, Peter Brook and ...Show more

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9781848421271

Publisher

Nick Hern Books

Published year

2015

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1

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The Active Text

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Paperback

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