Premium
Stage Left, Stage Right – The Heavens & Hell: Embodied Meaning & Memory in Performance
Author(s) -
Boyd Michael
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.2627
Subject(s) - analogy , embodied cognition , stage (stratigraphy) , meaning (existential) , space (punctuation) , thrust , visual arts , art , sociology , aesthetics , art history , philosophy , epistemology , engineering , geology , mechanical engineering , linguistics , paleontology
Former Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company Michael Boyd proposes an analogy between the ‘thrust’ stage and the human brain. On the thrust stage, he suggests, the actor holds the centre of the auditorium, in creative tension with the complex ‘mind’ of a four‐dimensional space that demands and allows communication with, and between, a thousand different points of view.