The actor is like the physical athlete, but with this surprising difference: his affective organism is analogous to the organism of the athlete, is parallel to it, as if it were its double, although not acting upon the same plane. The actor is an athlete of the heart. The division of the total person into three worlds obtains also for him; and his is the affective sphere. It belongs to him organically. The muscular movements of physical effort comprise an effigy of another effort, their double, and in the movements of dramatic action are localized at the same points. What the athlete depends upon in running is what the actor depends upon in shouting a passionate curse, but the actor’s course is altogether interior.”

Antonin Artaud, Le Théâtre et son double (The Theater and Its Double, translated by Mary Caroline Richards)

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