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Stanislavski and the Actor: The Final Acting Lessons, 1935-38 (Performance Books)

Stanislavski and the Actor: The Final Acting Lessons, 1935-38 (Performance Books)

by JeanBenedetti (Author)

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    Paperback 2008

    $21.58

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    Paperback 1998

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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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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 176
 Edition: Reprint, new cover
 Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: 29 Sep 2008
ISBN 10: 1408106868
ISBN 13: 9781408106860
Book Overview: 2008 is the 70th anniversary of Stanislavski's death, there will be much publicity and a major new publication by the author The teaching manual for actors that Stanislavski never had time to write Based on Stanislavski's own masterclasses and teaching notes

Media Reviews
A hands-on approach. Stanislavski and the Actor incorporates exercises, improvisations and other notes handed down by Irina Novitskaya, one of the maestro's assistants's from the short-lived Opera-Dramatic Studio in the 1930's. Benedetti, author of Stanislavski: A Biography, modernizes the vocabulary and references, and fleshes the material out with his own summary of the great man's system..
- American Theatre
Overall the book is fascinating....
- Theatre Journal
Students beginning the study of acting often need a primer about Konstantin Stanislavski--who he was and an overview of theories he crafted for the training of actors....For novice actors, and the teachers who are about to introduce them to Stanslavski, this title is perfect....Every undergraduate library supporting theatre studies should own this first-level introduction to Stanislavski. It is also a terrific book to give to freshman-level acting students as they walkin the door.
- Choice, 5/99
Every undergraduate library supporting theater studies should own this first-level introduction to Stanislavski. It is also a terrific book to give to freshmen-level acting students as they walk in the door.
- Choice
Author Bio
Jean Benedetti is a leading authority on Stanislavski. A former Principal of Rose Bruford College, his publications, Stanislavski and the Actor, The Moscow Art Theatre Letters, Stanislavski A Life in Art, The Art of the Actor, and two new Stanislavski translations, An Actors Work on Himself Parts 1 & 2, and My Life in Art.