TY - BOOK ID - 145962443 TI - Acting after Grotowski : theatre's carnal prayer PY - 2020 SN - 0429060807 PB - Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Acting KW - Theater KW - PERFORMING ARTS / General KW - PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General KW - PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Direction & Production KW - Philosophy. KW - Grotowski, Jerzy, KW - Criticism and interpretation. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:145962443 AB - "For whom does the actor perform? To answer this foundational question of the actor's art, Grotowski scholar Kris Salata explores acting as a self-revelatory action, introducing Grotowski's concept of "carnal prayer," and developing an interdisciplinary theory of acting and spectating. Acting after Grotowski: Theatre's Carnal Prayer attempts to overcome the religious/secular binary by treating "prayer" as a pre-religious, originary deed, and ultimately situates theatre along with ritual in their own territory of play. Grounded in theatre practice, Salata's narrative moves through postmodern philosophy, critical theory, theatre, performance, ritual, and religious studies, concluding that the fundamental structure of prayer, which underpins the actor's deed, can be found in any self-revelatory creative act"-- ER -