An Actor Prepares
- 280 Seiten
- 10 Lesestunden
One of the most important books on acting ever written, this is the book that introduced Stanislavski's influential 'system' to the English-speaking world.
Die Schauspielbücher Reihe
Diese Serie taucht tief in die Welt der Schauspielkunst ein und bietet Lesern Einblicke in die wegweisenden Methoden und Philosophien, die Bühne und Leinwand geprägt haben. Sie erforscht die Techniken von Meistern, deren Einfluss bis heute nachhallt, und liefert praktische Anleitungen für zeitgenössische Darsteller. Theater- und Filmbegeisterte werden eine reiche Quelle der Inspiration und des Wissens entdecken. Es ist ein unverzichtbarer Leitfaden für alle, die die Essenz des schauspielerischen Handwerks verstehen wollen.
Empfohlene Lesereihenfolge
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Building a Character
- 299 Seiten
- 11 Lesestunden
"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)
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No-one has had greater influence on acting as we know it than Stanislavski. His 'system' or interpretations of it - has become the central force determining almost every performance we see on stage or screen. His teaching is principally set out in three famous books: An Actor Prepares, Building a Character and Creating a Role. It is still the only comprehensive theory of acting we possess. In the first book, An Actor Prepares, Stanislavski dealt with the inner imaginative processes. In the second Building a Character, he concentrated on the body, the voice and other physical means of expression. In Creating a Role, the third book, he describes the elaborate preparation that precedes actual performance. Creating a Role "describes the elaborate marination that precedes the acutal performance. The analyses of Othello and The Inspector General, which make up Parts Two and Three, show a mind cutting through text like an inspired psneumatic-drill…Altogether Creating a Role is a brilliant little treatise and a careful reading is worth several lessons in almost any English acting academy" (Charles Marowitz, The Observer)
An Actor's Work
- 762 Seiten
- 27 Lesestunden
27 The External Creative State in Performance -- 28 General Creative State in Performance -- 29 The 'System' -- Appendices -- Endnotes -- Glossary of Key Terms -- Afterword by Anatoly Smeliansky
