Contents Notes on Contributors Thanks, Acknowledgements and Permissions Introduction John Keefe and Simon Murray Part 1: Genesis, Contexts, Namings Essay 1: Claire Heggen Goes Fishing Dick McCaw 1. My Definition of Theatre etienne Decroux 2. Altered States and Subliminal Spaces: Charting the Road towards a Physical Theatre Ana Sanchez-Colberg 3. Performance Epistemology David E. R. George 4. Letter to M. d'Alembert on the Theatre J.
-J. Rousseau, Citizen of Geneva 5. Theatre, Human Beings Augusto Boal 6. Body Techniques Marcel Mauss 7. Morality Terry Eagleton Part 2: Roots:Routes Essay 2: Roots or Routes; The Technical Traditions of Contemporary Physical Theatre Jonathan Pitches A. Deep Traditions: Classical and Popular 8. The Art of Poetry Aristotle 9. The Performer David Wiles 10.
Irving Alan S. Downer 11. Improvisation: methods and models Jeff Pressing 12. LAZZI: The Comic Routines of the Commedia dell'Arte Mel Gordan 13. A Jewel on the Nation's Arse Jeff Nuttall 14. Sport, the Aesthetic and Art: Further Thoughts Peter J. Arnold 15 Goodbye Note from Joan Joan Littlewood B. Hybrid Pathways 16.
German Expressionist Acting Mel Gordon 17. The Theatre and The Plague Anaïs Nin 18. A Statement (Rewritten from a recorded interview) Allan Kaprow 19. Surviving the Performance: An Interview with Franko B. Patrick Campbell and Helen Spackman 20. The Angel's Hideout: Between Dance and Theatre Enrique Pardo Part 3: Contemporary Practices Essay 3: Gesturing Towards Post-Physical Performance Franc Chamberlain 21. Introduction and East, Scene 4 Steven Berkoff 22. Act Without Words: A Mime for One Player Samuel Beckett To Music by John Beckett 23.
Re-dressing the girls Emilyn Claid 24. Bluebeard Norbert Servos 25. Club of No Regrets, Forced Entertainment Tim Etchells 26. On Brith Gof', a montage of material about and concerning the work of Brith Gof, a Welsh Theatre Company Mike Pearson and Cliff McLucas 27. MAG - The Next Five Years 1997-2002 Franc Chamberlain Part 4: Preparation and Training Essay 4: Reframing The Journey Lorna Marshall 28. Photo Essay: Sports etienne Decroux 29. Appendix: A practical guide to the application of the Michael Chekhov Psychological Gesture (PG) Technique Translation and commentary by Andrei Malaev-Babel 30. The Articulate Body: the physical training of the actor Anne Dennis 31.
Movement Technique Jacques Lecoq 32. Circus and the Actor: an interview with Hovey Burgess Myra Felner 33. Moving Yoshi Oida and Lorna Marshall Part 5: Physicality and the Word Essay 5: Physical Theatre and Text Phelim McDermott 34. On Everyday Theatre (Poems of the Crisis Years 1929-1933) Bertolt Brecht 35. Rockaby and the art of inadvertent interpretation, and Considerations of acting in the early plays Jonathan Kalb 36. A Shared Experience: The Actor as Storyteller Mike Alfreds 37. US Narrative One, Albert Hunt , and Narrative Two, Michael Kustow 38. Comedians Trevor Griffiths 39.
Introductory Essay', Beautiful', Sunday' (Sunday in the Park with George) Robert Kimball and Stephen Sondheim Part 6: Bodies and Cultures Essay 6: Assembling our differences: bridging i.