This is Volume 7, Part I of the Contemporary Theatre Review, an International Journal, with this edition focusing on Prescence and pre-expressivity. Covering topics such as Body in Mind: Exploring Pre-Expressivity; Peter Brook and Traditional Thought; Grotowski, Holiness, and the Pre-Expressive; Barba's Concepts of the Pre-Expressive and the Third Organ of the Body of the Theatre and Theories of Consciousness; Pre-Expressivity: Some Thoughts from the Rehearsal Floor.
This edition focuses on the "pre-expressive" and a range of related concepts: "score", "underscore", or "subscore", text and performance-text, the body and mind of the performer, cultural and linguistic embedding, and "presence" or the "pre-performative".
