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- ISBN: 9780415586290 | 0415586291
- Cover: Nonspecific Binding
- Copyright: 8/27/2010
"As an actress I sit, speak, run, sweat and, simultaneously, I represent someone who sits, speaks, runs and sweats. As an actress, I am both myself and the character I am playing. I exist in the concreteness of the performance and, at the same time, I need to be alive in the minds and senses of the spectators. How can I speak of this double reality?" ' Julia VarleyThis is a book about the experience of being an actress from a professional and female perspective. Julia Varley has been a member of Odin Theatret for 33 years, and Notes from an Odin Actress is a personal account of her work with Eugenio Barba and this world-renowned theatre company.This is a unique window onto the in-depth exercises and day-to-day process of an Odin member. It is a journal to enlighten anyone interested in the performances, the discoveries and the hard physical work that accompany a life in theatre.