Rethinking the Actor's Body

How does an actor embody a character? How do they use their body as an instrument of expression?Rethinking the Actor''s Body offers an accessible introduction to the fields of neurophysiology and embodied knowledge through a detailed examination of what an actor does with their body.Built on almost a decade of conversations and public seminars by the author Dick McCaw in partnership with John Rothwell (Professor of Neurophysiology at University College London UK) Rethinking the Actor''s Body explores a set of questions and preoccupations concerning the actor''s body and examines overlaps in research and practice in the fields of actor training embodied knowledge and neurophysiology.