In Search of Stanislavsky’s Creative State on the Stage: With a Practice as Research Case Study - Softcover

Curpan, Gabriela

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367630737 ISBN 13: 9780367630737

Publisher: Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

This book rediscovers a spiritual way of preparing the actor towards experiencing that ineffable artistic creativity defined by Konstantin Stanislavski as the creative state.

Filtered through the lens of his unaddressed Christian Orthodox background, as well as his yogic or Hindu interest, the practical work followed the odyssey of the artist, from being oneself towards becoming the character, being structured in three major horizontal stages and developed on another three vertical, interconnected levels. Throughout the book, Gabriela Curpan aims to question both the cartesian approach to acting and the realist-psychological line, generally viewed as the only features of Stanislavski’s work.

This book will be of great interest to theatre and performance academics as well as practitioners in the fields of acting and directing.

About this title

About the Author

Gabriela Curpan was awarded her PhD from Goldsmith, University of London. She is a Romanian practitioner with over twenty years of acting experience, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton, and a visiting lecturer, teaching acting techniques in Staffordshire University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367630737
• ISBN 13: 9780367630737
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 266