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Page 63
But speech can be beautified, not destroyed, by true feeling! What's more, there
are many non-Method actors who mumble; and I can also give you examples of
actors who do nothing inconsistent with Stanislavski's aims and who, no matter ...
But speech can be beautified, not destroyed, by true feeling! What's more, there
are many non-Method actors who mumble; and I can also give you examples of
actors who do nothing inconsistent with Stanislavski's aims and who, no matter ...
Page 98
That is a given circumstance when you come on, that is true. But that is only one
application of the term. I would hope that he meant: given all the circumstances of
the particular play — which might be, for example, that the characters do not live
...
That is a given circumstance when you come on, that is true. But that is only one
application of the term. I would hope that he meant: given all the circumstances of
the particular play — which might be, for example, that the characters do not live
...
Page 163
I said that if it is true only to you — if you "feel right in it" but every other element of
art involved in it is wrong — then it is not true, artistically speaking. I felt it was
wrong to condone the "indicated," unfortunately sometimes effective, kind of
acting ...
I said that if it is true only to you — if you "feel right in it" but every other element of
art involved in it is wrong — then it is not true, artistically speaking. I felt it was
wrong to condone the "indicated," unfortunately sometimes effective, kind of
acting ...
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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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