The god of theatre
In Ancient Greece, plays were performed in honour of Dionysos – god of wine, of the mask, and of theatre. Above all, Dionysos is the god...
What is acting? (2)
Was Thespis right? Is acting just a kind of ‘play’ (we refer to ‘play acting’ after all)? According to legend, Thespis was the inventor...
What is acting? (1)
Crudely, acting could be defined as ‘pretending to be someone else’. But that sounds like dishonesty, so we'd need to add that acting...
I am NOT my brain
In 2014, the neuroscientist Dick Swaab published a book with the title, We Are Our Brains. To my mind, that such a claim could be...