Training the Eye

In “Training the Eye,” S. P. Cerasano examines how a production’s visual dimension trains us to be more careful observers. She focuses on the actor Anthony Sher, who excelled in such visual language, culminating in his playing Lear, with the result that his movement and gestures had a “thrill” and also “an intelligence of [their] own.” Beyond this, training the eye in the theatre “helps us better perceive each other in everyday life, in ways that are unspoken.”