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Through the Body:

A Practical Guide to Physical Theatre
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Nick Hern Books, 2001 - Acting - 243 pages

A step-by-step guide to Physical Theatre in both theory and practice - full of detailed exercises and inspiring ideas.

In Through the Body, based on twelve years of teaching physical theatre, Dymphna Callery introduces the reader to the principles behind the work of certain key 20th-century theatre practitioners (Artaud, Grotowski, Meyerhold, Brook and Lecoq, among others) and offers exercises by which their theories can be turned into practice and their principles explored in action.

The book takes the form of a series of workshops starting with the preparation of the body through Awareness, Articulation, Energy and Neutrality. A section on Mask-work is followed by further work on the body, investigating Presence, Complicité, Play, Audience, Rhythm, Sound and E-motion.

The book - and the work - culminates in sections on Devising and on the Physical Text. There is also a thorough bibliography and a contact list of training courses in the UK and abroad.

'This book offers everything you have ever wanted to know about Physical Theatre. It is very detailed but at the same time very easy to understand. It breaks down every topic to short paragraphs which are informative and simple. A must for any theatre student or lecturer for that matter!' Amazon readers review

  

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Contents

INTRODUCTION
3
Awareness
22
Neutrality
32
neutral mask
52
character masks
58
commedia
64
The body
72
The body in space
79
Rhythm
118
Sound
132
Emotion
148
Starting points and process
163
Image and gesture
173
Generating text
179
Imagining text
201
Character
211

Complicite
88
Play
94
Audience
103
APPENDIX
217
BIBLIOGRAPHY
235
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About the author (2001)

Dymphna Callery has performed and taught drama throughout the UK, including Liverpool John Moores University and Wolverhampton University. She is a published playwright and poet.

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TitleThrough the Body: A Practical Guide to Physical Theatre
AuthorDymphna Callery
Editionillustrated
PublisherNick Hern Books, 2001
ISBN1854596306, 9781854596307
Length243 pages
  
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