The Invisible Actor

Lorna Marshall author Yoshi Oida author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:1st Oct '20

£17.99

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The Invisible Actor cover

An essential guide for actors and practitioners, The Invisible Actor reveals the mysteries of performance and imparts the necessary skills to master the art of acting.

The Invisible Actor presents the captivating and unique methods of the distinguished Japanese actor and director, Yoshi Oida. While a member of Peter Brook's theatre company in Paris, Yoshi Oida developed a masterful approach to acting that combined the oriental tradition of supreme and studied control with the Western performer's need to characterise and expose depths of emotion. Written with Lorna Marshall, Yoshi Oida explains that once the audience becomes openly aware of the actor's method and becomes too conscious of the actor's artistry, the wonder of performance dies. The audience must never see the actor but only his or her performance. Throughout Lorna Marshall provides contextual commentary on Yoshi Oida's work and methods. In a new foreword to accompany the Bloomsbury Revelations edition, Yoshi Oida revisits the questions that have informed his career as an actor and explores how his skilful approach to acting has shaped the wider contours of his life.

Yoshi Oida shows how the mysteries and secrets of performance are inseparable from a precise, concrete and detailed science learned in the heat of experience. The vital lessons he passes on to us are told with such lightness and grace that typically the difficulties become invisible. -- Peter Brook

ISBN: 9781350148260

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 176g

128 pages