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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... 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 limit- ing ...
... 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 limit- ing ...
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... hear anything . So he got up from the seat and moved halfway down in the house and he still couldn't hear anything . Finally an- noyed , he got right down in the front with the director who recognized him and said , " Oh , Maestro , you ...
... hear anything . So he got up from the seat and moved halfway down in the house and he still couldn't hear anything . Finally an- noyed , he got right down in the front with the director who recognized him and said , " Oh , Maestro , you ...
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... 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 speeches to come around and don ...
... 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 speeches to come around and don ...
Contents
The Method Itself | 23 |
Some Attitudes toward the Method | 51 |
Method Fetishes | 67 |
Copyright | |
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