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Actor and Character in African Masquerade Performance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2009

Frances Harding
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Extract

The tension between form and meaning pervades the entire life of the performer … How is routine life connected to that intensified union of form and meaning which constitutes performance?

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Theatre Research International , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , Spring 1996 , pp. 59 - 71
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Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1996

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