An Actor Prepares - Hardcover

Stanislavski, Constantin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0878300015 ISBN 13: 9780878300013

Publisher: Routledge, 1987

Synopsis

Stanislavski's simple exercises fire the imagination, and help readers not only discover their own conception of reality but how to reproduce it as well.

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Review:

[O]ne of the most inspired and inspiring manifestos of our art that I know.

About the Author:

Konstantin Stanislavski (1863-1938) was a Russian director who sought 'inner realism' by insisting that his actors find the truth within themselves and 'become' the characters they portrayed. His work brought international fame to the Moscow Art Theatre, which he had co-founded with Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko in 1897. During his early years at the Moscow Art Theatre, he directed the first productions of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya (1899), Three Sisters (1901) and The Cherry Orchard (1904) as well as a series of celebrated versions of Shakespeare. Stanislavski toured America with the company in 1923. After World War II, the US edition of Stanislavski's treatise An Actor Prepares (1926) became a bible of the Method school of acting.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0878300015
• ISBN 13: 9780878300013
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 345