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The alchemical actor / Jane Gilmer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gilmer, Jane, author.
- Series:
- Consciousness, literature and the arts 1573-2193. 57
- Consciousness, literature and the arts 57
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theater--Philosophy.
- Theater.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (262 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts : Brill Rodopi, [2021]
- Summary:
- "This book offers an imagination for new theatre inspired by the directives of Antonin Artaud. The alchemical four elements - earth, water, air and fire and four alchemical stages - nigredo, albedo, citrino and rubedo perform initiatory steps in the practice of alchemical transformational consciousness"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Artaud's alchemical theatre : earth and the nigredo
- Alchemical imaginatio : water and the albedo
- Alchemical actor : air and the citrino
- Alchemical magnum opus : fire and the rubedo
- Dance of the elements : quintessence.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9004449426
- 9789004449428
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