Konstantin Stanislavsky (Routledge Performance Practitioners)

✍ Scribed by Bella Merlin

• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 184
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This compact, well-illustrated and clearly written book offers an essential guide to the complex and contradictory nature of this master of theatre. Routledge Performance Practitioners are a series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the last century. Each volume explains the background to and the work of one of the major influences on twentieth and twenty-first century performance.These compact, well-illustrated and clearly written books unravel the contribution of modern theatre's most charismatic innovators, through:personal biographyexplanation of key writingsdescription of significant productionsreproduction of practical exercises.As a first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners are unbeatable value for today's student.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
BIOGRAPHY IN SOCIAL AND ARTISTIC CONTEXT......Page 14
SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS OF AN ACTOR PREPARES......Page 52
DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS OF THE SEAGULL......Page 96
PRACTICAL EXERCISES......Page 130
Conclusion......Page 168
A brief glossary of terms......Page 170
Selected bibliography......Page 176
Index......Page 180