Creating a Role

Constantin Stanislavski (translated by Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood; edited by Kermine I. Popper; foreword by Robert Lewis)

ISBN 10: 0878300120 / ISBN 13: 9780878300129

Published by New York: Theatre Arts Books, 1980

About this Item

9th printing. Small octavo. Condition: top edge of DJ has several small nicks & chips; else near fine in very good DJ. 271 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Creating a Role
• Publisher: New York: Theatre Arts Books
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0878300120
• ISBN 13: 9780878300129
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Building a Character is one of the three volumes that make up Stanislavski’s The Acting Trilogy.

An Actor Prepares explores the inner preparation an actor must undergo in order to explore a role to the full. In this volume, Sir John Gielgud said, this great director “found time to explain a thousand things that have always troubled actors and fascinated students.”

Building a Character discusses the external techniques of acting: the use of the body, movement, diction, singing, expression, and control.

Creating a Role describes the preparation that precedes actual performance, with extensive discussions of Gogol’s The Inspector General and Shakespeare’s Othello. Sir Paul Scofield called Creating a Role “immeasurably important” for the actor.

These three volumes belong on any actor’s short shelf of essential books.

About the Author

Constantin Stanislavski (1863-1938), arguably the most influential director in the history of the theater, was the founder of the renowned Moscow Art Theater. A pioneer of psychological realism and improvisation on the stage, he devoted his life to developing the performance techniques now emulated throughout the world.