6 Questions to ask a piece of “real” theatre
… (seems unfair to call it a “play”…) 1. How do I (as an audience member) understand the real elements as real? What scenographic cues am I given to counteract […]
Monthly Archives: November 2012
Acting and Non-Acting part 2
Continuing to think about Michael Kirby’s model describing a spectrum of acting through not-acting. At the non-acting end, (as discussed in my previous post) Kirby suggests that performers who appear […]
Acting and Non-Acting part 1
Searching though the literature for theoretical insight into the phenomena of non-actors, I found an article by Michael Kirby, entitled “On Acting and Not-Acting, first published in 1972 in TDR […]
Upsurges of the Real: a performance research blog 