Phillip B. Zarrilli is Professor of Performance Practice at the University of Exeter, UK, and the founding Artistic Director of The Llanarth Group, Wales, UK. Jerri Daboo is Senior Lecturer in Drama at the University of Exeter, UK, and has worked as a performer and director for many years. Rebecca Loukes is Senior Lecturer in Drama at the University of Exeter, UK, and Co-Artistic Director of RedCape Theatre, UK.

"The book offers a significant and original contribution to knowledge in the field. Working through phenomenology, intercultural performance, cognitive psychology, neuroscience and ecology the work is current and insightful, and the authors respond to these fields confidently and persuasively." - Anna Fenemore, University of Leeds, UK "...excitingly imagined. It may transform, and beneficially so, the occidental theatre." Simon Williams, Theatre Research International

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsNotes on the AuthorsPreface; Phillip B. Zarrilli, Jerri Daboo, Rebecca Loukes1. Introduction: Acting as Psychophysical Phenomenon and Process; Phillip B. Zarrilli2. Psychophysical Acting in India; Phillip B. Zarrilli3. Psychophysical Acting in Japan; Phillip B. Zarrilli4. Stanislavsky and the Psychophysical in Western Acting; Jerri Daboo5. Making Movement: The Psychophysical in 'Embodied' Practices; Rebecca Loukes6. Beyond the Psychophysical? The 'Situated', 'Enactive' Bodymind in Performance; Rebecca LoukesAfterword: Dialogue and Paradox; Jerri DabooAppendix I: An historical/contextual introduction to intercultural theatre; Phillip B ZarrilliReferencesEndnotes.