Edward Bond: A Critical Study

• Published in: New Theatre Quarterly 2015, Vol.31 (1), p.91
• Main Author: Nelson, Will
• Format: Review
• Language: English
• Subjects: Actors; Careers; Creativity; Dance; Drama; Dramatists; Essays; Feminism; Learning; Society; Studies; Theater; Writers
• ISSN: 0266-464X; 1474-0613
• DOI: 10.1017/S0266464X15000111

http://crossmark.crossref.org/dialog/?doi=10.1017/S0266464X15000111&domain=pdf Web End = The power of the book is to be found in the creative and contemporary insights captured in the versatility of these case studies and the atten -tion to detail paid to the dynamic relations between topics in both the social and pure sciences as well as the humanities, ranging from the postdramatic performance aspects of war to life-science laboratory games in a theatre lab a hub of research at the meeting point of science and performing arts, bringing scientists and performance artists into a performative space of synchronized togetherness in performing science. Actors get more in touch with their emotions through participating in movement exercises and learning to be in their body, they learn to use the body in developing a character, and they can use the movement training in plays or lms that utilize dance. [...]the author looks at Bonds later work from Crime of the Twenty-First Century onwards. [...]the book as a whole helps to high -light just how innovative Bond has been during the latter half of the past century and how he continues to defy convention in the early years of the new.