Eugenio Barba

Eugenio Barba is recognized as one of the most important theatre practitioners working today. Along with the company he founded forty years ago, the world-acclaimed Odin Teatret, he continues to produce extraordinary theatre performances that tour the world, and his International School of Theatre Anthropology has greatly developed research into the craft of the actor. This useful guidebook not only provides practical exercises for both students and teachers, but also offers an historical perspective on European and world theatre and charts exciting developments in theatre research.

Eugenio Barba, director, theorist and founder of the Odin Teatret, is today one of the major points of reference for contemporary experimental theater. In The Paper Canoe–translated here into English for the first time–Eugenio Barba explores the"pre-expressive" basis of "presence" effective on stage and how human beings behave "in a situation of organized representation."

This useful guidebook not only provides practical exercises for both students and teachers, but also offers an historical perspective on European and world theatre and charts exciting developments in theatre research Eugenio Barba is the first book to combine:…

This chapter reconstructs Eugenio Barba's theoretical reflections on apprenticeship. Beginning with the idea of a laboratory as a space for technical research, it ends with ISTA (International School of Theatre Anthropology) and with the idea of the theatre as an unending school, an environment where, through technical principles, one tries to transmit ethical principles.
Training is the transcription of Eugenio Barba's commentary for two films on Odin Teatret, directed by Torgeir Wethal for Italian TV in November 1972.