This book combines his seminal Theatre: The Rediscovery of Style with material from Training for the Theatre, newly edited to create a work which moves seamlessly from theory to practice.
In this text, style is the word used to describe the various ways in which theatre is done in real space and time by humans in the physical presence of other humans.
... style and gesture, and have been able only to include what bears directly on these elements of theatre. It has seemed important to try and set each development in these areas within a social ... Theatre: The Rediscovery of Style Afterword.
... Theatre: The Rediscovery of Style, 89–90. 133 Ibid., 91. 134 Notes on 'Advanced Technical Course; September 15, 1947: BL, Add. MS 81180. 135 Saint-Denis, ed. Baldwin, Theatre: The Rediscovery of Style, 88. 136 R.D. Smith, 'New Life at ...