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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... supposed to feel it ! " I think it is an excuse for the fact that the actor is not doing what he should be doing . I think if he really does it right , he will feel it ! Or , if not , we must find out what he is doing that is wrong . It ...
... supposed to feel it ! " I think it is an excuse for the fact that the actor is not doing what he should be doing . I think if he really does it right , he will feel it ! Or , if not , we must find out what he is doing that is wrong . It ...
Page 93
... supposed to be thinking as he said a certain line . “ That's impossible , " he said . “ Just give me the line reading ! I'll do it any way you say . Just read it for me . But don't tell me what I'm supposed to be thinking because that's ...
... supposed to be thinking as he said a certain line . “ That's impossible , " he said . “ Just give me the line reading ! I'll do it any way you say . Just read it for me . But don't tell me what I'm supposed to be thinking because that's ...
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... supposed to be experienc- ing . If you have ever sung you know how good it feels to crack out that high C , and yet it might be the very moment when you are supposed to be murdering the fellow . So that " noble ” sense of " beauty ...
... supposed to be experienc- ing . If you have ever sung you know how good it feels to crack out that high C , and yet it might be the very moment when you are supposed to be murdering the fellow . So that " noble ” sense of " beauty ...
Contents
The Method Itself | 23 |
Some Attitudes toward the Method | 51 |
Method Fetishes | 67 |
Copyright | |
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