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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Page 88
... true - feeling actors or are we to be artists who use our true feelings as one of the tools of our craft to create with ? The first problem in discussing this subject is to over- come the difficulty of defining the word truth at all ...
... true - feeling actors or are we to be artists who use our true feelings as one of the tools of our craft to create with ? The first problem in discussing this subject is to over- come the difficulty of defining the word truth at all ...
Page 98
... 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 in the Bronx , they live in 17th ...
... 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 in the Bronx , they live in 17th ...
Page 163
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Contents
The Method Itself | 23 |
Some Attitudes toward the Method | 51 |
Method Fetishes | 67 |
Copyright | |
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