Theatre & mind / $c Bruce McConachie
Series: Theatre&
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 82
ISBN-13: 9780230275836
Subjects: Acting; Theater audiences; Theater; Psychology; Semiotics; Actors; Psychological aspects
Other titles: Theatre and mind
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Playing; title: Acting; title: Spectating.