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• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Introduction
• I Contemplation and Intuitive Response
• Responding to art: an introduction
• Intuitive response and theatre: seeing with an “inner eye”
• Reflective learning and contemplative practice
• EXERCISE: Reflective questions about the play
• More contemplative practice: Zen as an interpretative lens
• Zen and art
• EXERCISE: Zen and art
• Tapping into intuition: breathe, read, reflect
• EXERCISE: Beginning meditation
• Adjusting to meditation
• EXERCISE: Breathe, read, reflect
• Foregrounding the body as an interpretive tool
• EXERCISE: Tableau vivant
• Associational materials
• EXERCISE: Associations and central images
• Questions for application
• Sources and further study
• II Formalist Analysis
• Formalist analysis: an introduction
• Aristotle: then and now
• Aristotle revealed: breaking down the Poetics
• EXERCISE: Identifying Aristotelian elements
• Application of formalist principles
• Plot
• EXERCISE: Questions about plot
• Character
• EXERCISE: Questions about character function
• Character
• EXERCISE: Questions about character analysis
• Idea
• EXERCISE: Questions about idea
• Language
• EXERCISE: Questions about language
• Music
• EXERCISE: Questions about music
• Spectacle
• EXERCISE: Questions about spectacle
• Stanislavski and the actor’s script
• EXERCISE: Units, beats, and given circumstances
• Action analysis
• EXERCISE: Action analysis paper
• Questions for application
• Sources and further study
• III Interpreting the Nonlinear Play
• Nonlinear by any other name
• Postmodernism
• EXERCISE: The loss of the real
• Form and content: the playwright’s view
• EXERCISE: Form and content
• Visualizing structure: the landscape of a play and concept mapping
• EXERCISE: Concept mapping
• Vocality and the playwright’s voice
• EXERCISE: New language playwriting
• Interpreting the de-centered script: Key moments, lateral thinking, and exquisite pressure
• Key moments
• Case study: Viewpoints
• Lateral thinking
• Exquisite pressure
• Questions for application
• Sources and further study
• IV Responding to the Script
• On finding a path to understanding
• Considering the audience and occasion
• EXERCISE: Outlining your presentation
• Style and critical lenses
• Contextual considerations: global cultures
• Allowing for change in rehearsal and production
• Questions for application
• Sources and further study
• Index