Five Continents of Theatre

Eugenio Barba, Nicola Savarese

The Five Continents of Theatre' undertakes the exploration of the material culture of the actor, which involves the actors' pragmatic relations and technical functionality, their behaviour, the norms and conventions that interact with those of the audience and the society in which actors and spectators equally take part.0The material culture of the actor is organised around body-mind techniques and auxiliary techniques whose variety concern: the diverse circumstances that generate theatre performances, festive or civil occasions, celebrations of power, popular feasts such as carnival, calendar recurrences such as New Year, spring and summer festivals; the financial and organisational aspects: costs, contracts, salaries, impresarios, tickets, subscriptions, tours; the information to be provided to the public: announcements, posters, advertising, parades; the spaces for the performance...