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Topic: RSS FeedLet's sleep on it: a new acting technique touts dream incubation for creative problem solving.(New Books)(Dreamwork for Actors)(Book Review)
American Theatre, January, 2004 by van Itallie, Jean-Claude
DREAMWORK FOR ACTORS
By Janet Sonenberg Routledge, New York. 256 pp, $17.95 paper.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF Technology theatre professor Janet Sonenberg, in her book Dreamwork for Actors, intrigues us by asking, "What if we could ... contact the wild sea of imagination? What if we could harness the boundless creativity of our dreams in our waking life? What if an actor could dream the character's dream?"
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Sonenberg's new acting techniques guide actors in the use of dreams to enrich performance. Her techniques give access to that part of the imagination which emanates from our unconscious, "the world of potent symbols, tidal relationships, impulses and chaos" that exists in us all the time but isn't...
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