Description: Applying novel research techniques to the largest digitized database of literature on acting in the world, this book and its companion volume, Training Actors, explores and explains the complex and competing ideas about acting.
Brief description: John Matthews is Head of the School of Society and Culture at University of Plymouth, UK, and a performer and theatre-maker. He is author of Training for Performance (2011) and Anatomy of Performance Training (2014). He is Programme Leader of the prestigious Acting programme with Theatre Royal Plymouth Conservatoire.
Review Quotes: "The methodology that the author uses is nothing short of astonishing - we often speak of interdisciplinary connections and work with other disciplines, and this is one of the most developed and important connections with another discipline that I have ever seen." --Stefan Aquilina, University of Malta