Theatre and Boxing focuses on a problem which is of paramount importance for any theatre practitioner and researcher: the actor s believable body. This problem has been taken up by Stanislavski, Meyerhold, Artaud, Brecht, Decroux, Copeau, Grotowski, and many others. It is an essential hurdle for all who practice the theatrical craft or want to study it theoretically. This hurdle can be considered one of the foundations of theatre science and of the relationship between technique, politics and ethics.

This book tells the story of a revolution in the work of the actor in the...