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The Actor's Energy: Male/Female versus Animus/Anima

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2009

Eugenio Barba
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Extract

INTEREST IN ACTORS who play female roles and actresses who play male roles is periodically rekindled. At such times, one might almost suspect that behind these disguises, these contrasts between reality and fiction, lie hidden one of the theatre's secret potentialities. One also often speaks of the actor's female side and the actress's male side, and attempts to develop these forthwith by means of apposite exercises.

Type
The Female Role in the Theatre
Information
New Theatre Quarterly , Volume 3 , Issue 11 , August 1987 , pp. 237 - 240
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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