Konstantin Stanislavsky

Author : Bella Merlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781134513499

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Konstantin Stanislavsky by Bella Merlin Pdf

"Routledge Performance Practitioners" is a series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the 20th century. Each volume explains the background to and the work of one of the major influences on 20th and 21st century performance. These compact, well-illustrated and clearly written books unravel the contribution of modern theatre's most charismatic innovators, through: personal biography; explanation of key writings; description of significant productions; and reproduction of practical exercises.

Author : Konstantin Stanislavsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Acting
ISBN : OSU:32435014979884

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My Life in Art by Konstantin Stanislavsky Pdf

Describes his role in the Alexeiev Circle, the Society of Art and Literature, and the Moscow Art Theatre; his development of what became "method acting"; and his relations with Anton Chekhov, Anton Rubenstein, Leo Tolstoy, Maurice Maeterlinck, Isadora Duncan and Gordon Craig.

Author : Konstantin Stanislavski
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781315474243

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An Actor's Work by Konstantin Stanislavski Pdf

Stanislavski’s ‘system’ has dominated actor-training in the West since his writings were first translated into English in the 1920s and 30s. His systematic attempt to outline a psycho-physical technique for acting single-handedly revolutionized standards of acting in the theatre. Until now, readers and students have had to contend with inaccurate, misleading and difficult-to-read English-language versions. Some of the mistranslations have resulted in profound distortions in the way his system has been interpreted and taught. At last, Jean Benedetti has succeeded in translating Stanislavski’s huge manual into a lively, fascinating and accurate text in English. He has remained faithful to the author's original intentions, putting the two books previously known as An Actor Prepares and Building A Character back together into one volume, and in a colloquial and readable style for today's actors. The result is a major contribution to the theatre, and a service to one of the great innovators of the twentieth century. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by the director Richard Eyre.

Author : Sharon Marie Carnicke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000299496

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Stanislavsky in Focus by Sharon Marie Carnicke Pdf

Stanislavsky in Focus brilliantly examines the history and actual premises of Stanislavsky’s 'System', separating myth from fact with forensic skill. The first edition of this now classic study showed conclusively how the 'System' was gradually transformed into the Method, popularised in the 1950s by Lee Strasberg and the Actor’s Studio. It looked at the gap between the original Russian texts and what most English-speaking practitioners still imagine to be Stanislavsky’s ideas. This thoroughly revised new edition also delves even deeper into: the mythical depiction of Stanislavsky as a tyrannical director and teacher yoga, the mind-body-spirit continuum and its role in the ‘System’ how Stanislavsky used subtexts to hide many of his ideas from Soviet censors. The text has been updated to address all of the relevant scholarship, particularly in Russia, since the first edition was published. It also features an expanded glossary on the System's terminology and its historical exercises, as well as more on the political context of Stanislavsky's work, its links with cognitive science, and the System's relation to contemporary developments in actor-training. It will be a vital part of every practitioner's and historian's library.

Author : David Richard Jones
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1986-06-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520908574

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Great Directors at Work by David Richard Jones Pdf

The subject of this book is theatre directing in four internationally famous instances. The four directors—Konstantin Stanislavsky, Bertolt Brecht, Elia Kazan, and Peter Brook—all were monarchs of the profession in their time. Without their work, theatre in the twentieth century—so often called "the century of the director" —would have a radically different shape and meaning. The four men are also among the dozen or so modern directors whose theatrical achievements have become culture phenomena. In histories, theories, hagiographies, and polemics, these directors are conferred classic stature, as are the four plays on which they worked. Chekhov's The Seagull, Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, and Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire have long been recognized, in the theatre and in the study, as masterpieces. They are anthologized, quoted, taught, parodied, read, and produced constantly and globally. The culturally conservative might question the presence of MaratiSade in such august company, but Peter Weiss's play stands every chance of figuring in Western repertories, classroom study, and theatrical histories until well into the twenty-first century. In their quite different ways, these are all classics of that Western drama which is part of our immediate heritage.

Author : Konstantin Stanislavsky
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0878309810

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Creating a Role by Konstantin Stanislavsky Pdf

This third volume examines the development of a character from the viewpoint of three widely contrasting plays.

Author : Konstantin Stanislavsky
Publisher : Methuen Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Acting
ISBN : 1408100053

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Building a Character by Konstantin Stanislavsky Pdf

In his most famous book, An Actor Prepares, Stanislavski dealt with the imaginative processes. In the second book, Building a Character, he deals with the physical realisation of character on the stage, expressions, movement and speech etc. It is a book in which every theory is inextricably bound up with practice - a perfect handbook to the physical art of acting. The work of Stanislavski has inspired generations of actors and trainers. This edition, now reprinted with a new cover at a more accessible price, has stood the test of time for actors all over the world and was the original English language translation. A classic text for every actors library. 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)

Author : Laurence Senelick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 781 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136343407

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Stanislavsky: A Life in Letters by Laurence Senelick Pdf

Konstantin Stanislavsky transformed theatre in the West and was indisputably one of the twentieth century’s greatest innovators. His life and work mark some of the most significant artistic and political milestones of that tumultuous century, from the emancipation of the serfs to the Russian Revolution. Little wonder, then, that his correspondence contains gripping exchanges with the famous and infamous of his day: men such as Tolstoy, Chekhov, Trotsky and Stalin, among others. Laurence Senelick, one of the world’s foremost scholars of Russian literature, mines the Moscow archives and the definitive Russian edition of Stanislavsky’s letters, to produce the fullest collection of the letters in any language other than Russian. He sheds new light on this fascinating field. Senelick takes us from the earliest extant letter of an eleven-year-old Konstantin in 1874, through his work as actor, director and actor trainer with the Moscow Art Theatre, to messages written just before his death in 1938 at the age of seventy-five. We discover Stanislavsky as son, brother and father, as lover and husband, as businessman and "internal emigre." He is seen as a wealthy tourist and an impoverished touring actor, a privileged subject of the Tsar and a harried victim of the Bolsheviks. Senelick shares key insights into Stanislavsky's work on such important productions as The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard, Hamlet, Othello, and The Marriage of Figaro. The letters also reveal the steps that led up to the publication of his writings My Life in Art and An Actor’s Work on Himself. This handsome edition is also comprehensively annotated and fully illustrated.

Author : Konstantin Stanislavski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135203436

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An Actor's Work on a Role by Konstantin Stanislavski Pdf

An Actor’s Work on a Role is Konstantin Stanislavski’s exploration of the rehearsal process, applying the techniques of his seminal actor training system to the task of bringing truth to one’s chosen role. Originally published over half a century ago as Creating a Role, this book was the third in a planned trilogy – after An Actor Prepares and Building a Character, now combined in An Actor’s Work – in which Stanislavski sets out his psychological, physical and practical vision of actor training. This new translation from renowned scholar Jean Benedetti not only includes Stanislavski’s original teachings, but is also furnished with invaluable supplementary material in the shape of transcripts and notes from the rehearsals themselves, reconfirming 'The System' as the cornerstone of actor training.

Author : Konstantin Sergeevič Stanislavskij
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:958189537

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An Actor Prepares by Konstantin Sergeevič Stanislavskij Pdf

Author : Stephanie Daventry French,Philip G. Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136519345

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Experiencing Stanislavsky Today by Stephanie Daventry French,Philip G. Bennett Pdf

This pioneering introduction to Stanislavsky's methods and modes of actor training covers all of the essential elements of his System. Recreating ‘truthful’ behaviour in the artificial environment, awareness and observation, psychophysical work, given circumstances, visualization and imagination, and active analysis are all introduced and explored. Each section of the book is accompanied by individual and group exercises, forming a full course of study in the foundations of modern acting. A glossary explains the key terms and concepts that are central to Stanislavsky’s thinking at a glance. The book’s companion website is full of downloadable worksheets and resources for teachers and students. Experiencing Stanislavsky Today is enhanced by contemporary findings in psychology, neuroscience, anatomy and physiology that illuminate the human processes important to actors, such as voice and speech, creativity, mind-body connection, the process and the production of emotions on cue. It is the definitive first step for anyone encountering Stanislavsky’s work, from acting students exploring his methods for the first time, to directors looking for effective rehearsal tools and teachers mapping out degree classes.

Author : Edward David Latham
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781574412499

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Tonality as Drama by Edward David Latham Pdf

Drawing on the fields of dramaturgy, music theory, and historical musicology, this book answers a question about twentieth-century music: Why does tonality persist in opera, even after it has been abandoned in other genres?

Author : Maria Shevtsova
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107023390

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Rediscovering Stanislavsky by Maria Shevtsova Pdf

An interdisciplinary approach to Stanislavsky's theatre practice in sociocultural and political contexts and its legacy in the twenty-first century.

Author : Konstantin Stanislavsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1410204898

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Konstatin Stanislavsky, 1863-1963 by Konstantin Stanislavsky Pdf

Originally published in the Soviet Union in 1963, this is a Stanislavsky centennial collection. It contains excerpts from memoirs referring to the great Russian actor and stage director. There are passages by Maxim Gorky, Anatoly Lunacharsky, Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Yevgeny Vakhtangov, Sergei Eisenstein, Emile Verhaern, Maurice Maeterlinck, Max Reinhardt, Jacques Copeau, etc. Most of the materials presented in this collection, including the brilliant letters by Stanislavsky, are little known abroad, and appear in English for the first time. The collection is lavishly illustrated. "The theatre is the finest medium of intercourse between nations. It reveals their most cherished aspirations. If only these aspirations were revealed more often ... the nations would shake hands, and lift their caps, instead of training guns on each other." - Konstantin Stanislavsky

Author : Gabriela Curpan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000377033

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In Search of Stanislavsky’s Creative State on the Stage by Gabriela Curpan Pdf

This book rediscovers a spiritual way of preparing the actor towards experiencing that ineffable artistic creativity defined by Konstantin Stanislavski as the creative state. Filtered through the lens of his unaddressed Christian Orthodox background, as well as his yogic or Hindu interest, the practical work followed the odyssey of the artist, from being oneself towards becoming the character, being structured in three major horizontal stages and developed on another three vertical, interconnected levels. Throughout the book, Gabriela Curpan aims to question both the cartesian approach to acting and the realist-psychological line, generally viewed as the only features of Stanislavski’s work. This book will be of great interest to theatre and performance academics as well as practitioners in the fields of acting and directing.