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Content Acknowledgement Introduction Anthony Neilson: An Overview Introducing the Narrative Rehearsals Methodology Book Structure Part 1: Neilson’s Authorial Process Part Introduction Chapter 1: Neilson’s Authorial Process and the Actors’ Input Case Study 1: Neilson as Author, Blackmail and Murder, and the Authorial Trope of Sound to Portray Psychological Liminality Case Study 2: The Actor’s Indirect Input into Neilson’s Convoluted Jigsaw Case Study 3: Olly Rix, Shakespeare and Superheroes: The Actor’s Direct Input Conclusion Chapter 2: ’The Footmouse Dance’: The Actors’ Input into Authorial Tropes and Neilson’s Ad-Hoc Approach to Authorship What’s in a Name?: The Naming of Characters as an Authorial Trope in Neilson’s Work Zawe Ashton and the Cancelled Magazine Subscription: The Actor’s Direct Input Reconsidered "Footmouse! Brilliant!": Humiliation as an Authorial Trope in Neilson’s Work Chance and the Arbitrary: Neilson’s ’Magpie’ Approach to Authorship Conclusion Part 2: Neilson’s Process and Improvisation Part Introduction Chapter 3: Improvisation and Characterisation ’Box Therapy’: Uncertain Beginnings with Random Objects Improvisation and Characterisation via Stanislavskian Principles Instinct Mask Work The Relationship Between Actor and Director: Unproductive Aspects The Relationship Between Actor and Director: Productive Aspects Conclusion Chapter 4: The ’Human Soundscape’: Improvisation, Rules and Failure Uncertain Beginnings with an Absence of Rules Humour, Rules and Challenging Leadership Corpsing Failure as Failure Play and Catharsis: Therapy for the ’Box Therapy’ Conclusion Part 3: Directing Actors Part Introduction Chapter 5: Neilson the ’Unsafe’ Director Directing and Power: Neilson’s Egalitarian Approach Directing and Power: Neilson’s Not Quite So Egalitarian Approach Power and Communication ’Ask the Audience’: The Suggestion of Audience Participation and its Rejection ’Ask the Audience’: Not Neilson’s Way or the High Way ’What Did You Expect’: Neilson Directs the Ending Conclusion Chapter 6: Neilson and the Actor’s Process The Stanislavskian Actor’s Process Actors’ Heterogeneity Case Study 1: Neilson’s Motivational Speech The Actor’s Process, Emotional Labour and the Reality of Working Conditions Case Study 2: Press Night The Importance of Timing for the Actor’s Process Actors’ Coping Strategies Conclusion Book Conclusion Index

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