Method--or Madness?: With an Introd. by Harold Clurman, Volume 10A dynamic, inventive and articulate stage director explores in practical, down-to-cases language "The Method: " what it is and is not; the nonsense, the misconceptions, the myths that have sprung up and flourished around it; its development as a workable theory of stage technique and its application to all types of theatrical production. |
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Page 54
... Michael Chekhov , for instance , who visited the Group actors during the thirties when his company was here . We had a party for him and he came and spoke with us . We had heard of Stanislavski's remark to Gordon Craig , " If you want ...
... Michael Chekhov , for instance , who visited the Group actors during the thirties when his company was here . We had a party for him and he came and spoke with us . We had heard of Stanislavski's remark to Gordon Craig , " If you want ...
Page 56
... Chekhov was talking , his hands started to dig into the man's heart . Suddenly one got this terrific image of what ... Michael Chekhov embodied the " Complete Internal " plus the " Complete External " outlined in the Method chart , yet ...
... Chekhov was talking , his hands started to dig into the man's heart . Suddenly one got this terrific image of what ... Michael Chekhov embodied the " Complete Internal " plus the " Complete External " outlined in the Method chart , yet ...
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... Michael Chekhov was doing was employing " psychological ges- ture . " In the second case you can maintain that Duse was " playing her objective ” which was to fight off those ghosts of the past . You may feel that Grasso was " playing ...
... Michael Chekhov was doing was employing " psychological ges- ture . " In the second case you can maintain that Duse was " playing her objective ” which was to fight off those ghosts of the past . You may feel that Grasso was " playing ...
Contents
The Method Itself | 23 |
Some Attitudes toward the Method | 51 |
Method Fetishes | 67 |
Copyright | |
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