Building a Character

by Constantin Stanislavski (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1989

  $34.29

  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.

• Used

  Paperback
  1979

  $11.79

  An Actor must work all his life, cultivate his mind, train his talents systematically, develop his character; he may never despair and never relinquish this main pupose - to love his art with all his strength and love it unselfishly. (Constantin Stanislavski)