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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... reason why so much nonsense and amateur gibber- ish is bandied about apropos of this reasoned and reason- able subject is an abiding appetite among us for " magic . " We are always in search of something that is novel ix INTRODUCTION by ...
... reason why so much nonsense and amateur gibber- ish is bandied about apropos of this reasoned and reason- able subject is an abiding appetite among us for " magic . " We are always in search of something that is novel ix INTRODUCTION by ...
Page 80
... reason or another , any other way while saying their lines in the play . Whatever the reason was , I could not get them to talk or listen to each other and really play the scene in the author's words . So I said , " Now that you know ...
... reason or another , any other way while saying their lines in the play . Whatever the reason was , I could not get them to talk or listen to each other and really play the scene in the author's words . So I said , " Now that you know ...
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... reason not to know what the lights will be like be- fore you get to them , and then incorporate that knowl- edge in ... reason you have to be looking that way . It can be a reason quite apart from anything you could have imagined . It ...
... reason not to know what the lights will be like be- fore you get to them , and then incorporate that knowl- edge in ... reason you have to be looking that way . It can be a reason quite apart from anything you could have imagined . It ...
Contents
The Method Itself | 23 |
Some Attitudes toward the Method | 51 |
Method Fetishes | 67 |
Copyright | |
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