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Acting under the circumstances : variations on a theme of Stanislavski : a step-by-step approach to playing a part / Richard Brestoff.
- Title
- Acting under the circumstances : variations on a theme of Stanislavski : a step-by-step approach to playing a part / Richard Brestoff.
- Author
- Brestoff, Richard.
- Publication
- Lyme, NH : Smith & Kraus, 1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PN2061 .B73 1999 | Off-site |
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- Description
- viii, 183 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- From the author of The Great Acting Teachers and Their Methods, Acting Under the Circumstances details a step-by-step approach to playing a part. Based on the work Constantine Stanislavski was using near the end of his life, we follow two actors as a teacher guides them through their parts in Henrik Ibsen's great play, A Doll House. Then we learn how techniques are used for monologues and cold readings. We learn how analysis stems from instinct, from experiencing the character's circumstances without becoming them or speaking their dialogue. Actors memorize "events" and not lines. This approach, never before so clearly explained or engagingly taught, gives actors, from novices to professionals, a reliable, creative, and innovative method for playing a part.
- Series Statement
- Career development series
- Uniform Title
- Career development series.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 183).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 1575251876
- LCCN
- ^^^99014281^
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library