Where mystique meets technique: The body-centered boot-camp training of Tadashi Suzuki gives actors a new medley of tools. (Approaches to Theatre Training).

AMONG THE MAJOR FIGURES of Japanese avant-garde theatre, Tadashi Suzuki--with his rigorous method of physical training that virtually remakes actors' bodies--has exerted the most powerful influence in this country over what an actor should be. Since his work came to the attention of American theatre practitioners in the early 1980s, the Suzuki method of actor training has swept through the acting community like foxfire.

His training exercises re-ignited a landscape that, constrained by the boundaries of realism, was said in some quarters to be disintegrating into kitchen-sink ...

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