An actor's work : a student's diary /
By: Stanislavski, Konstantin.
Contributor(s): Benedetti, Jean [editor and translator.]
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Publisher: London : Routledge, 2008Description: xxviii, 693 p. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780415551205 (pbk.); 9780415551205:; 041555120X (pbk.).Subject(s): Method acting -- Stanislavski | Method acting | Acting -- Russia -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 792.028 Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Introduction / Declan Donnellan -- Translator's foreword / Jean Benedetti -- Publisher's acknowldegements -- "An actor's work" : original draft preface (extracts) -- Year one : experiencing. "An actor's work" : introduction. 1 : amateurism. 2 : the stage as art and stock-in-trade. 3 : action, "if", "given circumstance". 4 : imagination. 5 : concentration and attention. 6 : muscular release. 7 : bits and tasks. 8 : belief and the sense of truth. 9 : emotion memory. 10 : communication. 11 : an actor's adaptations and other elements, qualities, aptitudes and gifts. 12 : inner psychological drives. 13 : inner pyschological drives in action. 14 : the actor's inner creative state. 15 : the Supertask, Throughaction. 16 : the subconcious and the actor's creative state -- Year two : embodiment. 17 : transition to physical embodiment. 18 : physical education. 19 : voice and speech. 20 : perspective of the actor and the role. 21 : tempo-rhythm. 22 : logic and sequence. 23 : physical charcteristics. 24 : the finishing touches. 25 : charisma. 26 : ethics and discipline. 27 : the external creative state in performance. 28 : general creative state in performance. 29 : the "system" -- Appendices. Endnotes. Glossary of key terms. Afterword / Anatoly Smeliansky.
Stanislavski's 'system' has dominated actor-training in the West since his writings were first translated into English in the 1920s and 1930s. Benedetti's translation is designed to overcome past mistranslations which have - it is argued - resulted in profound distortions in the teaching of Stanislavsky's work.
Translated from the Russian.