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Notes From An Odin Actress: Stones of Water

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‘As an actress I sit, speak, run, sweat and, simultaneously, I represent someone who sits, speaks, runs and sweats. As an actress, I am both myself and the character I am playing. I exist in the concreteness of the performance and, at the same time, I need to be alive in the minds and senses of the spectators. How can I speak of this double reality?’ – Julia Varley



This is a book about the experience of being an actress from a professional and female perspective. Julia Varley has been a member of Odin Teatret for over thirty years, and Notes from an Odin Actress is a personal account of her work with Eugenio Barba and this world-renowned theatre company.



This is a unique window onto the in-depth exercises and day-to-day processes of an Odin member. It is a journal to enlighten anyone interested in the performances, the discoveries and the hard physical work that accompany a life in theatre.

210 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 29, 2010

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جوليا فارلي، عضو مسرح الأودين الذي أسسه يوجينيو باربا، تستعرض لعبتها الشخصية على المسرح وكراستها الذاتية الناتجة من احتكاك سنوات طوال مع أهم باحث ومخرج مسرحي (باربا)

تكمن فردانية هذا الكتاب في كونه يحافظ جداً على خصوصية التجربة وشخصانيتها، وبالتالي تتقاطع فارلي وتتنافر مع تجارب الآخرين، ليكون هذا التجاذب والتنافر أشبه بإنارة الطريق لأي مهتم بالسؤال المسرحي ولأي مستكشف لعمق وفضاحة التعقيد في الواقع المزدوج في أن يكون الممثل نفسه وشخصية أخرى يتكلم بها، يجري بها، ويتعرق بها.
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