Imag(in)ing the poetic body : a directorial approach to heightening text(ure) in performance.

Bye, Lara

Imag(in)ing the poetic body : a directorial approach to heightening text(ure) in performance.

Master Thesis

2012

Publisher

University of Cape Town

Department

Department of Drama

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Abstract

This thesis is the enquiry of a Director of text-based work in search of a more heightened physical texture in staging written text. Inspired by Jacques Lecoq’s use of the idea of the Poetic Body, this enquiry is the Director’s attempt to discover what this ‘Poetic Body’ might mean, and how imagining the Poetic Body and the country/landscape/territories this body might inhabit or occupy, can be useful to the Director in preparing a rehearsal process, and in the ultimate staging of the text for performance.

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Keywords

Theatre and Performance

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