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Building a Character
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Building a Character Paperback - 1989

by Constantin Stanislavski; Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood (Translator)

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"Building a Character," the second volume in Stanislavski's acclaimed trilogy, continues the total immersion in technique and class scenarios begun in "An Actor Prepares."

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Building a Character is one of the three volumes that make up Stanislavski's The Acting Trilogy.

An Actor Prepares explores the inner preparation an actor must undergo in order to explore a role to the full. In this volume, Sir John Gielgud said, this great director "found time to explain a thousand things that have always troubled actors and fascinated students."

Building a Character discusses the external techniques of acting: the use of the body, movement, diction, singing, expression, and control.

Creating a Role describes the preparation that precedes actual performance, with extensive discussions of Gogol's The Inspector General and Shakespeare's Othello. Sir Paul Scofield called Creating a Role "immeasurably important" for the actor.

These three volumes belong on any actor's short shelf of essential books.

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AT THE beginning of our lesson I told Tortsov, the Director of our school and theatre, that I could comprehend with my mind the process of planting and training within myself the elements necessary to create character, but that it was still unclear to me how to achieve the building of that character in physical terms.

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  • Title Building a Character
  • Author Constantin Stanislavski; Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, New York, New York, U.s.a.
  • Publication date June 1989
  • ISBN 9780878309825 / 0878309829
  • Weight 0.86 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.96 x 5.58 x 0.73 in (20.22 x 14.17 x 1.85 cm)
  • Category Performing Arts
  • Library of Congress subjects Acting, Method (Acting)
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 89145827
  • Dewey Decimal Code 792.028

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Constantin Stanislavski (1863-1938), arguably the most influential director in the history of the theater, was the founder of the renowned Moscow Art Theater. A pioneer of psychological realism and improvisation on the stage, he devoted his life to developing the performance techniques now emulated throughout the world.

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