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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... listen- ing — you know , breaking it up a little ! And after I had done everything seemingly needed for the scene and there it all was , I suddenly asked one character to lie on the ground , lean forward on one hand , turn up towards ...
... listen- ing — you know , breaking it up a little ! And after I had done everything seemingly needed for the scene and there it all was , I suddenly asked one character to lie on the ground , lean forward on one hand , turn up towards ...
Page 144
... listen to the prattle of his voice while waiting for your next cue , but really listen in order to find out what he means to say by his lines , you will be sur- prised that when you come back with your next little simple idea that it is ...
... listen to the prattle of his voice while waiting for your next cue , but really listen in order to find out what he means to say by his lines , you will be sur- prised that when you come back with your next little simple idea that it is ...
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... listen to the words . C : That is my intention in giving such simple settings , and I should like the movements to be simple and few in number . S : Why do Chekhov ? you think we make so many movements in C : Because they derive from ...
... listen to the words . C : That is my intention in giving such simple settings , and I should like the movements to be simple and few in number . S : Why do Chekhov ? you think we make so many movements in C : Because they derive from ...
Contents
The Method Itself | 23 |
Some Attitudes toward the Method | 51 |
Method Fetishes | 67 |
Copyright | |
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