An Actor Prepares
- 280 páginas
- 10 horas de lectura
One of the most important books on acting ever written, this is the book that introduced Stanislavski's influential 'system' to the English-speaking world.
Esta serie se adentra en el profundo mundo de la actuación, ofreciendo a los lectores una visión de los métodos y filosofías fundamentales que han dado forma al teatro y al cine. Explora las técnicas de maestros cuya influencia resuena hoy en día, proporcionando orientación práctica para los intérpretes contemporáneos. Los entusiastas del teatro y el cine descubrirán una rica fuente de inspiración y conocimiento. Es una guía esencial para cualquiera que busque comprender la esencia misma del arte de la actuación.




One of the most important books on acting ever written, this is the book that introduced Stanislavski's influential 'system' to the English-speaking world.
"An Actor must work all his life, cultivate his mind, train his talents systematically, develop his character; he may never despair and never relinquish this main pupose - to love his art with all his strength and love it unselfishly." (Constantin Stanislavski)
No-one has had greater influence on acting as we know it than Stanislavski. His 'system' or interpretations of it - has become the central force determining almost every performance we see on stage or screen. His teaching is principally set out in three famous books: An Actor Prepares, Building a Character and Creating a Role. It is still the only comprehensive theory of acting we possess. In the first book, An Actor Prepares, Stanislavski dealt with the inner imaginative processes. In the second Building a Character, he concentrated on the body, the voice and other physical means of expression. In Creating a Role, the third book, he describes the elaborate preparation that precedes actual performance. Creating a Role "describes the elaborate marination that precedes the acutal performance. The analyses of Othello and The Inspector General, which make up Parts Two and Three, show a mind cutting through text like an inspired psneumatic-drill…Altogether Creating a Role is a brilliant little treatise and a careful reading is worth several lessons in almost any English acting academy" (Charles Marowitz, The Observer)
27 The External Creative State in Performance -- 28 General Creative State in Performance -- 29 The 'System' -- Appendices -- Endnotes -- Glossary of Key Terms -- Afterword by Anatoly Smeliansky