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Then again I hear, "The Method is a curse, it is ruining the theatre." Yet I know of
great actors who, I feel, are doing nothing that is incompatible with what I
understand the Method to be. I hear, further, that the Method is limiting — useful
only in ...
Then again I hear, "The Method is a curse, it is ruining the theatre." Yet I know of
great actors who, I feel, are doing nothing that is incompatible with what I
understand the Method to be. I hear, further, that the Method is limiting — useful
only in ...
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stage rehearsing but Stanislavski couldn't hear anything. So he got up from the
seat and moved halfway down in the house and he still couldn't hear anything.
Finally annoyed, he got right down in the front with the director who recognized
him ...
stage rehearsing but Stanislavski couldn't hear anything. So he got up from the
seat and moved halfway down in the house and he still couldn't hear anything.
Finally annoyed, he got right down in the front with the director who recognized
him ...
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Also, the actors are much more apt to hear the entire play in a relaxed way if
somebody reads it to them; more so than when they are tense about their first
reading — and tense they usually are the first time. They wait for their particular ...
Also, the actors are much more apt to hear the entire play in a relaxed way if
somebody reads it to them; more so than when they are tense about their first
reading — and tense they usually are the first time. They wait for their particular ...
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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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