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Building a Character
Paperback
Acting & AuditioningTechnical Theater
Publisher Price: $42.99
ISBN13: 9780878309825
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 28 1989
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.73 Width: 5.58 Depth: 7.96
Language: English
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.
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