STANISLAVSKI AND THE ACTOR by Jean Benedetti ( 9781408106860 )

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Title:

STANISLAVSKI AND THE ACTOR
THE FINAL ACTING LESSONS, 1935-38

By:

Jean Benedetti

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

1408106868

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9781408106860

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Publisher:

BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC

Pub. date:

29 September, 2008

Edition:

Reprint, new cover

Series:

Performance Books

Pages:

176

Description:

Between 1935 and 1938, Stanislavski did his final work in Moscow with a group of 11 young actors and directors trained in his special "system". This volume contains a full translation of verbatim transcriptions of Stanislavski's notes and practical exercises from these sessions.

Synopsis:

Stanislavski and the Actor offers a clear, modern presentation of Konstantin Stanislavski's methods of actor training and rehearsal. It is based on the course Stanislavski designed and taught with a team of hand-picked assistants in the last three years of his life (1935-38) at the Opera-Dramatic Studio in Moscow. Jean Benedetti now reconstructs that course. Stanislavski and the Actor is the manual which Stanislavski never had time to write. Using notes made by Stanislavski's assistants, exercises and improvisations used in class, transcripts of Stanislavski's own master classes (translated into English for the first time) and his knowledge of Stanislavski's earlier writings, Benedetti builds up a comprehensive description of the 'system' in contemporary language that is easy to understand by today's actors and teachers. He also shows that Stanislavski's revolutionary teachings about acting still have a wide application now.

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Imprint:

Methuen Drama

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