Product Description: Theatre, Performance and Cognition introduces readers to the key debates, areas of research, and applications of the cognitive sciences to the humanities, and to theatre and performance in particular. It features the most exciting work being done at the intersection of theatre and cognitive science, containing both selected scientific studies that have been influential in the field, each introduced and contextualised by the editors, together with related scholarship from the field of theatre and performance that demonstrates some of the applications of the cognitive sciences to actor training, the rehearsal room and the realm of performance more generally...read more

Reassessing the practice and theory of acting, this book examines the physiological relationship between bodily action and emotional experience. It looks at how imagination, emotion, memory, physicality, and reason are inseparable in the brain's structure and function, and their importance to an actor's engagement with a role.

Product Description: The genesis for Perspectives on Teaching Theatre can be traced back to the theme of the Association of Theatre in Higher Education’s 1993 Annual Conference «Imaging the Future», which focused on challenging curricular, pedagogical, and political issues in college theatre education...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)