Frankly Acting: An Autobiography of the Frank Suzuki Performance Aesthetics

John Nobbs

Brisbane

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Frank Theatre Press

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2006

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First Edition.

21cm x 14cm. ix, 198 pages, black and white photographs. Illustrated wrappers.

“John Nobbs’ Frankly Acting is the first Australian book espousing a uniquely homegrown theatrical performance theory. As Grotowski did in Poland and Artaud in France, Nobbs has articulated an Australian performance aesthetic which revivifies in a contemporary context the theatrical traditions of its geographic region. With illuminating references to popular culture, his Suzuki-inspired method is based on rigorous theatrical discipline, but with an ever-present and distinctively Australian sense of humour. Frankly Acting grounds its theory in the artistic heritage of the Asia-Pacific, with a theatrical resonance which is universal.” (Martin Buzacott)

. New Book.