Dick McCaw 
Rethinking the Actor”s Body [PDF ebook] 
Dialogues with Neuroscience

How does an actor embody a character? How do they use their body as an instrument of expression?
Rethinking the Actor”s Body offers an accessible introduction to the fields of neurophysiology and embodied knowledge through a detailed examination of what an actor does with their body.
Built on almost a decade of conversations and public seminars by the author Dick Mc Caw in partnership with John Rothwell (Professor of Neurophysiology at University College London, UK),
Rethinking the Actor”s Body explores a set of questions and preoccupations concerning the actor”s body and examines overlaps in research and practice in the fields of actor training, embodied knowledge and neurophysiology.