Future Theatre Research: Origin, Medium, Performance-Text, Reception and Acting - Hardcover

"For more than thirty years, Eli Rozik has been among the best known international theorists of theatre, thanks to his wide-ranging books on theatre history and methodology... He makes a major and unique contribution to the field." -- Marvin Carlson, Sidney E Cohn Distinguished Professor of Theatre & Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York "Eli Rozik joins a long tradition of scholarship on the performance codes of theatre, stretching from the Prague Linguistic School of the 1930s to contemporary writings in theatre semiotics, phenomenology, hermeneutics, and audience response theory ... Rozik delivers a rich and complex investigation of theatre performance." -- Thomas Postlewait, Editor of Studies in Theatre History, School of Drama, University of Washington

Eli Rozik explores the principles that generated the theatre medium, and its possible roots in the preverbal imagistic mode of thinking. This mode characterises the remnants of preverbal thinking, such as unconscious thinking (dreaming), the embryonic speech of toddlers, and their imaginative play and drawings prior to mastering verbal thinking. The book is a recapitulation of major findings regarding the nature of the theatre, its medium, fictional creativity and origin, and includes new unpublished studies. It address the principles of imagistic, metaphoric, symbolic and fictional thinking, which characterise the theatre, as well as reception and acting. The work has been designed to fit the structure of a university course, and will appeal to people interested in broadening their knowledge and understanding of theatre art.