Theatre & mind / Bruce McConachie.
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 assumptio...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2013.
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| Series: | Theatre&.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 82 pages ; 18 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780230275836 0230275834 |