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Title: Toward Mastery : An Acting Class with Nikos Psacharopoulos
Publisher: Smith & Kraus Publishers, Incorporated
Publication Date: 1999
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1575251663
ISBN 13: 9781575251660
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good
Weight: 0.531 pounds

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What makes for great acting? Nikos Psacharopoulos answers the question here, as he leads his students "toward mastery" on a journey not for the faint of heart. In a dynamic series of classes at Yale and NYU, running the gamut from beginners' anguish to advanced actors' triumph, Nikos tests his charges' talent, intellect, and courage. Again and Again he shows why he was a great teacher, a pioneering artistic director at Williamstown, and an inspiration to hundreds of major careers in the American theater.

With wit and anger, persuasion and bottomless energy, Nikos instills in his students the conviction that the aesthetic qualities behind great acting are as teachable as the most basic technical tools. Backed up by moving and perceptive comments from some of his closest associates, he proves that one can definitely aim for great acting...and, in some cases, achieve it.

With commentaries by: Gregory Boyd, Steve Lawson, Lynne Meadow, Bonnie Monte, Tom Moore, Austin Pendleton, David Schweizer, and Joanne Woodward.

About the Author

Jean Hackett graduated from NYU and studied acting at the Circle in the Square Theater School and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. She has acted extensively in theater and on television, including many years with the Williamstown Theater Festival, where she took part in Nikos Psacharopoulos' last production, The Legend of Oedipus. She is also the author of The Actor's Chekhov.

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