Since I’m a double major in both theatre and psychology, finding links between the two and being able to use my knowledge of one to relate to the other is important to me. Often enough, the classes will do that work for me and a topic in my psychology class will have just been brought up in my theatre class the day before or the other way around. So I found this lecture, The Psychology of Performing Arts: Theatre and Human Expression, and I wanted to share it, mostly because it kind of frustrated me. I could tell right away that this psychologist didn’t have any experience in theatre and when I did research on him to find out, I discovered his only experience in performance is music and singing. I found that everything he said was an outside view on theatre, an assumed perception. For example, he looks at ‘role-playing’ as getting into the heads of the character and that in turn could help us make decisions in our own lives by seeing the decisions that they made. I just felt as though he was missing the mark and I’d be interested to know what you all think too!
I’ll put the link below and I highly recommend skipping over the video of the lecture and just reading the transcript as it goes much faster.
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-psychology-of-performing-arts-theatre-and-human-expression
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