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My Character Wouldn't Do That: Acting, Cognitive Science and the Optimal Performance Brain

My Character Wouldn't Do That: Acting, Cognitive Science and the Optimal Performance Brain

Soto-Morettini, Donna

Hardcover

Acting & AuditioningPlays

ISBN10: 1350230359
ISBN13: 9781350230354
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Feb 10 2022
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Starting from the idea that the main hindrance to a great acting performance is self-consciousness on the part of the performer, My Character Wouldn't do That examines the ways in which some of our traditional and contemporary approaches to acting put us into a 'mind space' that can encourage self-consciousness. Examining evidence from a range of contemporary cognitive sciences, the book approaches acting and actor training in an entirely different way.

Based on the latest research into brain activity and human behaviour, the book covers areas that standard acting texts do (character, emotion, memory, imagination, making active choices) but reconceives each of these elements through the lens of that contemporary research.

The book is the first to look closely at what contemporary research tells us about:

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