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I suspect there is a danger inherent in the practice of working exclusively on "big"
scenes in studio classes. It is inevitable that you will choose an exciting scene to
do and not a dreary scene where nothing much happens. You're not going to ...
I suspect there is a danger inherent in the practice of working exclusively on "big"
scenes in studio classes. It is inevitable that you will choose an exciting scene to
do and not a dreary scene where nothing much happens. You're not going to ...
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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 the
make-up of the scene, the intentions, just get up and do it in your own words.
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 the
make-up of the scene, the intentions, just get up and do it in your own words.
Page 148
I take a scene or a section of it and have the actors involved do the scene in the
chairs so that they get that wonderful connection again which they have lost a bit
through having to get their positions. Then, as soon as they've got that ...
I take a scene or a section of it and have the actors involved do the scene in the
chairs so that they get that wonderful connection again which they have lost a bit
through having to get their positions. Then, as soon as they've got that ...
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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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