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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... physical pain ; that much at least must be in it , outside of everything else . Now what fear do I have of some physical shock or pain ? And here's where you're going to laugh . Because I wanted it to be a kind of growing fear as I got ...
... physical pain ; that much at least must be in it , outside of everything else . Now what fear do I have of some physical shock or pain ? And here's where you're going to laugh . Because I wanted it to be a kind of growing fear as I got ...
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... working out a part . I sat stunned a good deal of the time as I listened to her describing in minute detail the exact physical patterns she planned for herself in a part . I re- membered how she actually appeared to be when she came 72.
... working out a part . I sat stunned a good deal of the time as I listened to her describing in minute detail the exact physical patterns she planned for herself in a part . I re- membered how she actually appeared to be when she came 72.
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... physical ele- -ments of characterization you simply can't get from the play itself . Suppose you had to play a coal ... physically ; or mentally , for 80.
... physical ele- -ments of characterization you simply can't get from the play itself . Suppose you had to play a coal ... physically ; or mentally , for 80.
Contents
The Method Itself | 23 |
Some Attitudes toward the Method | 51 |
Method Fetishes | 67 |
Copyright | |
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