Through the Body: A Practical Guide to Physical Theatre

Physical Theater is emerging as a vibrant, influential and increasingly popular approach to theater performance. In Through the Body, Dymphna Callery introduces the reader to the principles behind the work of key practitioners of 20th century theater including Artaud, Grotowski, Brook and Lecoq. She offers exercises that turn their theories into practice and explore their principles in action.

This book takes the form of a series of workshops that include

• Preparation of the Body
• Maskwork
• Presence
• Complicite
• Sound
• Emotion

Through the Body also includes a thorough bibliography and a contact list of training courses.