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Page 106
I suppose the director is the one person who has to sit there through it all. I'm fond
of telling a story about the costume designer of Brigadoon, which I directed. The
show had played New Haven and we then went on to Boston to open on ...
I suppose the director is the one person who has to sit there through it all. I'm fond
of telling a story about the costume designer of Brigadoon, which I directed. The
show had played New Haven and we then went on to Boston to open on ...
Page 119
You should look for the essential quality of the part in casting the person to play it.
This is aside from physical things. What really is going to tell the story? If any of
you are old enough to have seen Jeanne Eagels in Rain, you will remember that
...
You should look for the essential quality of the part in casting the person to play it.
This is aside from physical things. What really is going to tell the story? If any of
you are old enough to have seen Jeanne Eagels in Rain, you will remember that
...
Page 141
Of course there are certain possible pitfalls in it: if the person reading is a very
fine performer and forgets that the object of the reading is to convey the ideas of
the play simply and straightforwardly, without any attempt to show how the parts ...
Of course there are certain possible pitfalls in it: if the person reading is a very
fine performer and forgets that the object of the reading is to convey the ideas of
the play simply and straightforwardly, without any attempt to show how the parts ...
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Contents
Background | 3 |
The Method Itself | 23 |
Some Attitudes toward the Method | 51 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Method--or madness?: With an introd. by Harold Clurman |
| Author | Robert Lewis |
| Publisher | French, 1958 |
| Length | 165 pages |
| Subjects | › Acting Method (Acting) Method acting Performing Arts / Acting & Auditioning Stanislavsky method |
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