Further Reading

Many of my favourite texts appear in the book’s bibliography. However, there are a few more resources I have found helpful during my research. Below is a list of these books and articles. They are gathered under subject and content rather than listed alphabetically.

Acting methods, commentaries and resources

Alfreds, Mike. Different Every Night: Freeing the Actor. London: Nick Hern Books, 2007.

Balk, H. Wesley. The Complete Singer-Actor: Training for Music Theatre. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1977.

Bennett, Lise. “Inspired States: Adapting the Michael Chekhov Technique for the Singing Actor.” Theatre, Dance and Performance Training 4, no. 2 (2013): 146–161.

Deer, Joe, and Rocco Dal Vera. Acting in Musical Theatre: A Comprehensive Course. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2016.

Harvard, Paul. Acting Through Song: Techniques and Exercises for Musical-Theatre Actors. London: Nick Hern Books, 2016.

Johnstone, Keith. Impro! Improvisation and the Theatre. New York: Theatre Arts Books, 1979.

Kayes, Gillyanne. Singing and the Actor. London: A & C Black, 2000.

Melton, Joan. Singing in Musical Theatre: The Training of Singers and Actors. New York: Allworth Press, 2007.

Melton, Joan, and Kenneth Tom. One Voice: Integrating Singing and Theatre Voice Techniques. 2nd ed. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2012.

Murray, Simon. Jacques Lecoq. London: Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Ostwald, David. Acting for Singers: Creating Believable Singing Characters. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Pulliam, Robert. “Training the Musical Theatre Performer: Finding a Unified Breath.” Voice and Speech Review 6, no. 1 (2009): 59–66. https://doi.org/10.1080/23268263.2009.10761506

Silverberg, Larry. The Sanford Meisner Approach. Portsmouth, NH: Smith and Kraus, 1994.

Smith, W. Stephen, and Michael Chipman. The Naked Voice: A Wholistic Approach to Singing. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Music theatre history

Everett, William, and Paul Laird, eds. The Cambridge Companion to the Musical. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 

Miller, Scott. Strike Up the Band: A New History of Musical Theatre. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2007

Preston, Katherine. “American Musical Theatre before the Twentieth Century.” In The Cambridge Companion to the Musical, edited by William Everett and Paul Laird, 3–28. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Academic research, philosophy and understanding

Böhme, Gernot. The Aesthetics of Atmospheres. Edited by Jean-Paul Thibaud. Abingdon, UK: Taylor & Francis Group, 2016. https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.libraryproxy.griffith.edu.au/lib/griffith/detail.action?docID=4684217.

Brook, Peter. Peter Brook: Conversations about Theater. Video/DVD. Produced by Merrill Brockway and Columbia Broadcasting System. Directed by Merrill Brockway. Creative Arts Television, 1973. https://video.alexanderstreet.com/watch/peter-brook-conversations-about-theater.

Crease, Robert, and Richard Lutterbie. “Technique.” In Staging Philosophy: Intersections of Theater, Performance, and Philosophy, edited by David Krasner and David Z. Saltz, 160–179. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006. ProQuest Ebook Central. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/griffith/detail.action?docID=3414685.

Green, Barry. The Inner Game of Music. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1986.

Kemp, Rick. Embodied Acting: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Performance. London: Routledge, 2012.

Krasner, David, and David Z. Saltz. “Introduction.” In Staging Philosophy: Intersections of Theater, Performance, and Philosophy, edited by David Krasner and David Z. Saltz, 1–18. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/griffith/detail.action?docID=3414685.

Meineck, Peter. “The Remains of Ancient Action: Understanding Affect and Empathy in Greek Drama.” In The Routledge Companion to Theatre, Performance and Cognitive Science, edited by Rick Kemp and Bruce McConachie, 116–128. London: Routledge, 2019.

Melton, Joan. “Integrative Links: Voice and Dance in Performance.” Voice and Speech Review 8, no. 2 (2014): 199–206. https://doi.org/10.1080/23268263.2014.887242.

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. The Phenomenology of Perception. Translated by Donald A. Landes. London: Routledge, 2012.

Mirodan, Vladimir. “Acting and Emotion.” In The Routledge Companion to Theatre, Performance and Cognitive Science, edited by Rick Kemp and Bruce McConachie, 168–190. London: Routledge, 2019.

Ramachandran, V. S. The Tell-Tale Brain: Unlocking the Mystery of Human Nature. London: William Heinemann, 2011.

Ruffini, Franco. “The Dilated Mind.” In The Secret Art of the Performer: A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology, edited by Eugenio Barba and Nicola Savarese, 88–94. London: Routledge, 1991.

Tunstall, Deborah. “Embodied Cognition and Shakespeare Performance.” In The Routledge Companion to Theatre, Performance and Cognitive Science, edited by Rick Kemp and Bruce McConachie, 103–113. London: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315169927.

Ullén, Fredrik, Örjan de Manzano, Töres Theorell, and László Harmat. “The Physiology of Effortless Attention: Correlates of State Flow and Flow Proneness.” In Effortless Attention: A New Perspective in the Cognitive Science of Attention and Action, edited by Brian Bruya, 205–218. Cambridge, MA: Bradford Books, 2010.