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.
Theatre & Mind introduces the reader to the cognitive foundations of performance, showing how developments in cognitive science can challenge our assumptions about what takes places in theatre

Provides students with an accessible way into this complex yet fundamental topic
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Autorentext

BRUCE MCCONACHIE is Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.

Inhalt

Series Editors' Preface.- Introduction.- Playing.- Acting.- Spectating.- Further Reading.- Index.