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The Question of Skill
The Question of Skill
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Description
The book argues that notions of skill tend to be uncritically accepted to suggest abilities that are learnt and applied or associated with a particular and stable set of techniques. But skill is, instead, never a neutral term but suggests processes, values and systems.
This study covers topics such as training, rehearsing and performing with a focus on the roles of the actor and director. As well as interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives, especially drawn from cognitive studies, it also discusses examples of skill as virtuosic performance.
Throughout, the book draws on first-hand observations of international contemporary theatre-makers in rehearsal and performance, including the contemporary work of Katie Mitchell, Anne Bogart, Odin Teatret, the RSC, the National Theatre, and Encounter Productions. As well as diverse training, rehearsal and performance contexts, it includes Fevered Sleep's Men & Girls Dance (2016), Simon Stone's Phaedra(National Theatre, 2023) and Jan Fabre's Mount Olympus: To Glorify the Cult of Tragedy(2015). It probes how theatre is made as an always skilled, human endeavour, and, in a post-Covid age, what the future may bring.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
254
Release Date:
2025-10-30
Publication Date:
2025-10-30
Publisher:
Methuen Drama
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1350300268
ISBN13:
9781350300262
Weight:
455 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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