"It is essential to put an end to the subjugation of the theatre to the text, and to recover the notion of a kind of unique language half-way between gesture and thought." -Antonin Artaud. "The Theatre and its Double" From Acting to Performance : Essays in Modernism and Postmodernism (Paperback) 0415157870 Mamet: act before you think.

From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism and Postmodernism by Philip Auslander; Routledge, 1997 - Part I: From Acting to Performance - 2: Holy Theatre and Catharsis - 3: Just Be Your Self - 4: Task and Vision - Part II: Postmodernism and Performance - 5: Presence and Theatricality in the Discourse of Performance and the Visual Arts - 6: Toward a Concept of the Political in Postmodern Theatre - 7: Embodiment - Part III: Postmodern Body Politics - 8: Vito Acconci and the Politics of the Body in Postmodern Performance - 9: Boal, Blau, Brecht - 10: Brought to You by Fem-Rage - 11: The Surgical Self

Playwrights and Acting: Acting Methodologies for Brecht, Ionesco, Pinter, and Shepard by James H. McTeague; Greenwood Press, 1994

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