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Zen and the Art of Acting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2009

Adrian Cairns
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Abstract

As a philosophy which is in effect a way of life. Zen has offered insights into most aspects of human activity from the martial arts to motorcycle maintenance. Here, Adrian Cairns, associate principal of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, analyzes the ways in which, despite their widely different origins, development, and purposes, the tenets of an eastern philosophy actually mesh with the principles common to most western styles of acting.

Type
Research Article
Information
New Theatre Quarterly , Volume 2 , Issue 5 , February 1986 , pp. 26 - 28
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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Notes and References

1. Suzuki, Shunryu, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice. New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1970.Google Scholar

2. Op. cit., p. 134.

3. Op. cit., p. 62.

4. Op. cit., p. 56.

5. Op. cit., p. 108.

6. Watts, Alan W., The Way of Zen. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p. 193.Google Scholar

7. Suzuki, op. cit., p. 61.

8. Watts, op. cit., p. 198.

9. Suzuki, op. cit., p. 22.

10. Suzuki, op. cit., p. 47.

11. Suzuki, op. cit., p. 87.

12. Watts, op. cit., p. 137.