"An Actor must work all his life, cultivate his mind, train his talents systematically, develop his character; he may never despair and never relinquish this main pupose - to love his art with all his strength and love it unselfishly." (Constantin Stanislavski)

Building a Character

Constantin Stanislavski

Humor & Entertainment

METHUEN

"The most informal - and in some ways the most delightful - of all Stanislavski books" - Sir Michael Redgrave No one has had a greater influence on acting as we know it than Stanislavski. His "method" - or interpretations of it - has become the central force determining almost every performance we see on stage or screen.Stanislavski's Legacy is a companion volume to his three great teaching books, An Actor Prepares, Building a Character and Creating a Role. It is a carefully arranged selection of the articles, speeches, notes and memoirs written between 1898, when the Moscow Art Theatre opened, and his death in 1938. Among the items are a series of brilliant letters on the interpretation of Othello, the long and affectionate article "Memories of Chekhov" and a final section in which Stanislavski envisages the theatre and the actors of the future."The legacy which Stanislavski and his collaborators have left us is, in all truth, magnificent; and its benefits are available not only to the actor and actress but to everyone who aspires to become a rounded human being" - Observer

Stanislavski's Legacy

Literature & Fiction

Methuen Drama

An Actor Prepares

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Theatre Arts Books

My Life in Art

Geoffrey Bles

Konstantin Stanislavsky: Selected Works

Imported Pubn

Aeonian Pr(Amerx)

From dust jacket notes: "Generally recognized a great classic in the field, An Actor Prepares has been helpful not only to persons working in the theatre, but to novelists, composers, sculptors, to anyone, in fact, anxious to understand himself and other people. Stanislavski's simple exercises have fired their imaginations, have helped them not only discover their own conception of reality but how to reproduce it...."

The Actor: Work on Oneself: The Creative Process of Embodiment, Part II, CWE Volume II (The Collected Works of Konstantin Stanislavsky)

Routledge

Creating a Roleis the culmination of Stanislavski's masterful trilogy on the art of acting. An Actor Prepares focused on the inner training of an actor's imagination. Building a Characterdetailed how the actor's body and voice could be tuned for the great roles he might fill. This third volume examines the development of a character from the viewpoint of three widely contrasting plays: Griboyedov's Woe from Wit, Shakespeare's Othello, and Gogol's The Inspector General. Building on the first two books, Stanislavski demonstrates how a fully realized character is born in three stages: "studying it; establishing the life of the role; putting it into physical form." Tracing the actor's process from the first reading to production, he explores how to approach roles from inside and outside simultaneously. He shows how to recount the story in actor's terms, how to create an inner life that will give substance to the author's words, and how to search into one's own experiences to connect with the character's situation. Finally, he speaks of the physical expression of the character in gestures, sounds, intonation, and speech. Throughout, a picture of a real artist at work emerges, sometimes failing, but always seeking truthful answers.

Creating A Role

First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Stanislavski's Legacy: A Collection of Comments on a Variety of Aspects of an Actor's Art and Life

Routledge: A Theatre Arts Book

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