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Unlike the technological virtual world, the world of the stage is exposed, and the individual body of every actor is vulnerable. Actors are confronted with the idiosyncrasies of the body. Actors are at their mercy. At the same time, the intelligence and dignity of their anatomy is obvious.
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E.T.A. Hoffmann, “The Sandman” in Hoffmann, Two Mysterious Tales, trans. John Oxenford (New York: Mondial, 2008), 3–42.
See Jean-Luc Nancy, “Masked Imagination,” chapter 6 in The Ground of the Image, trans. Jeff Fort (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), 80–100.
Heinrich von Kleist, “On the Marionette Theatre,” trans. Thomas G. Neumiller, The Drama Review, The “Puppet” Issue 4/16 (1972), 22–26.
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Valerie, S. (2016). The Causa Corpora. In: Actors and the Art of Performance: Under Exposure. Performance Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137596345_6
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