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A rich and fascinating exploration of what happens as actors embody fictional selves [...] accessible, grounded in professional practice and wide-ranging in scope. - Rick Kemp, author of Embodied Acting: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Performance This is a remarkable book - not a handbook, but the fullest discourse in recent years regarding the complex processes undergone by the protean actor [...] a combination of impeccably detailed research, perception and example [...] it has inspired me to think anew about my own practice. Brilliant, profound and shot through with passion and humanity, it is a must for both theatre academics and actors who seek to think about their craft. - Annie Tyson, Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts Mirodan's study is such a rich and learned piece of research, that covers so much ground, and interrelates data and insights from so many disparate areas of inquiry. His intention - to challenge what may have become the complacent orthodoxy of the actor-in-action model - is carried through with an extraordinarily impressive range of scholarship. The Actor and The Character is an outstanding example of the way in which a cross-disciplinary approach to any subject can elicit striking new insights for the target discipline (in this case transformative character acting). It is a book I know that I shall return to again and again, and I have no doubt that my own practice will be deeply affected, at its root, as a consequence of reading it. - Julian Jones, Stanislavski Studies '... a rich and fascinating exploration of what happens as actors embody fictional selves ... accessible, grounded in professional practice and wide-ranging in scope.' Rick Kemp, author of Embodied Acting: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Performance 'This is a remarkable book - not a handbook, but the fullest discourse in recent years regarding the complex processes undergone by the protean actor... a combination of impeccably detailed research, perception and example... it has inspired me to think anew about my own practice. Brilliant, profound and shot through with passion and humanity, it is a must for both theatre academics and actors who seek to think about their craft.' Annie Tyson, Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts

... a rich and fascinating exploration of what happens as actors embody fictional selves ... accessible, grounded in professional practice and wide-ranging in scope. - Rick Kemp, author of Embodied Acting: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Performance This is a remarkable book - not a handbook, but the fullest discourse in recent years regarding the complex processes undergone by the protean actor... a combination of impeccably detailed research, perception and example... it has inspired me to think anew about my own practice. Brilliant, profound and shot through with passion and humanity, it is a must for both theatre academics and actors who seek to think about their craft. - Annie Tyson, Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts Mirodan's study is such a rich and learned piece of research, that covers so much ground, and interrelates data and insights from so many disparate areas of inquiry. His intention - to challenge what may have become the complacent orthodoxy of the actor-in-action model - is carried through with an extraordinarily impressive range of scholarship. The Actor and The Character is an outstanding example of the way in which a cross-disciplinary approach to any subject can elicit striking new insights for the target discipline (in this case transformative character acting). It is a book I know that I shall return to again and again, and I have no doubt that my own practice will be deeply affected, at its root, as a consequence of reading it. - Julian Jones, Stanislavski Studies

A rich and fascinating exploration of what happens as actors embody fictional selves [...] accessible, grounded in professional practice and wide-ranging in scope. - Rick Kemp, author of Embodied Acting: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Performance This is a remarkable book - not a handbook, but the fullest discourse in recent years regarding the complex processes undergone by the protean actor [...] a combination of impeccably detailed research, perception and example [...] it has inspired me to think anew about my own practice. Brilliant, profound and shot through with passion and humanity, it is a must for both theatre academics and actors who seek to think about their craft. - Annie Tyson, Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts Mirodan's study is such a rich and learned piece of research, that covers so much ground, and interrelates data and insights from so many disparate areas of inquiry. His intention - to challenge what may have become the complacent orthodoxy of the actor-in-action model - is carried through with an extraordinarily impressive range of scholarship. The Actor and The Character is an outstanding example of the way in which a cross-disciplinary approach to any subject can elicit striking new insights for the target discipline (in this case transformative character acting). It is a book I know that I shall return to again and again, and I have no doubt that my own practice will be deeply affected, at its root, as a consequence of reading it. - Julian Jones, Stanislavski Studies

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Vladimir Mirodan is a theatre director, Emeritus Professor of Theatre, and was Vice-Principal and Director of Drama at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and Principal of Drama Centre London. He has published on topics of acting psychology, as well as the theory and practice of acting.

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