Stage Left, Stage Right – The Heavens & Hell: Embodied Meaning & Memory in Performance. (2nd November 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Boyd, Michael
• Other Names: Ritchie Ian guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Architectural design. Volume 90:Number 6(2020)
• Page Start: 22
• Page End: 27
• Publication Date: 2020-11-02
• Subjects: William Shakespeare, Henry VI: The Battle for the Throne -- RSC Courtyard Theatre -- Stratford‐upon‐Avon -- England -- Chuk Iwuji -- History plays -- Henry VI Part 1, 2 and 3 -- Richard III -- Richard II -- Henry V -- neuroscientists -- University College London -- John O'Keefe -- hippocampi -- rats -- London taxi drivers -- 'The Knowledge' -- Ian Ritchie Architects -- Jonathan Singer -- Agincourt -- Royal Shakespeare Theatre; 729
• DOI: 10.1002/ad.2627
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-8504

Abstract

Abstract: Former Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company Michael Boyd proposes an analogy between the 'thrust' stage and the human brain. On the thrust stage, he suggests, the actor holds the centre of the auditorium, in creative tension with the complex 'mind' of a four‐dimensional space that demands and allows communication with, and between, a thousand different points of view.