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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... ( Moscow Art ) theatre around 1911 in the heyday of the realistic play : Chekhov , Gorki , et al , and to the American theatre be- tween 1925-35 when plays by Sidney Kingsley , Clifford Odets and kindred playwrights were attracting ...
... ( Moscow Art ) theatre around 1911 in the heyday of the realistic play : Chekhov , Gorki , et al , and to the American theatre be- tween 1925-35 when plays by Sidney Kingsley , Clifford Odets and kindred playwrights were attracting ...
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... art , mean different things to different peo- ple . For instance : I know an actress , a charming , sincere , witty , intelligent person who , whenever you meet her , speaks with openness , sincerity , wit ... Moscow Art Theatre , " 88.
... art , mean different things to different peo- ple . For instance : I know an actress , a charming , sincere , witty , intelligent person who , whenever you meet her , speaks with openness , sincerity , wit ... Moscow Art Theatre , " 88.
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... Moscow to design the Moscow Art Theatre production of Hamlet . Stanislavski had pin- pointed the problem of poetic drama we have discussed by saying to the actors , “ In Hamlet you are given great feeling to portray and great words to ...
... Moscow to design the Moscow Art Theatre production of Hamlet . Stanislavski had pin- pointed the problem of poetic drama we have discussed by saying to the actors , “ In Hamlet you are given great feeling to portray and great words to ...
Contents
The Method Itself | 23 |
Some Attitudes toward the Method | 51 |
Method Fetishes | 67 |
Copyright | |
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