The BoxWhatBox Book
Acting for the 21st Century
Published on 8. February 2023
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-0391-5465-0 (ISBN)
Description
What if an actor possessed the expressive tools to work across cultures? Actor, director, and playwright Michael Devine (Playing Outside the Lines: Collected Plays I) has spent years bridging cultures in both performance and training. Through an exploration of the core principles of power, control, and joy, BoxWhatBox frees the artist from habits that inhibit their development and their ability to create, and which confine them within the box of their own cultures and lived experience. With case studies, photographs, and engaging games, exercises, and études, BoxWhatBox is the practical handbook for any actor who desires to inspire.
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Language
English
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 183 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
828 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-0391-5465-0 (9781039154650)
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Michael Devine is an international theatre director whose work has appeared in nine languages at national and independent theatres across the world. He has appeared as a featured guest artist sixteen times at international theatre festivals. The creator of BoxWhatBox, an internationally recognized performance creation and actor-training system, he has worked in more than twenty countries on five continents.
The founder and executive director of the Centre for Alternative Theatre Training (CATT), Michael creates and supports intercultural theatre projects in different cultural communities in Canada, the US, Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia. As a playwright, Michael's work has been produced in Canada, Hungary, Serbia, Croatia, Romania, Ukraine, Finland, and Kosovo.
Classically trained as an actor in London (UK) at LAMDA and New York City at the HB Studio, Michael has a PhD in drama from the University of Toronto. His latest work, KONTAKT, premièred at the FLIPT Festival in Fara in Sabina, Italy, in July 2021. Playing Outside the Lines is the first of two volumes of his collected plays. These will be followed by BoxWhatBox: Acting for the 21st Century, to be published in 2022.