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The Acting Books Series

This series delves into the profound world of acting, offering readers insights into the seminal methods and philosophies that have shaped stage and screen. It explores the techniques of masters whose influence resonates today, providing practical guidance for contemporary performers. Theater and film enthusiasts will discover a rich wellspring of inspiration and knowledge. It's an essential guide for anyone seeking to understand the very essence of the acting craft.

An Actor's Work
Creating a Role
Building a Character
An Actor Prepares

Recommended Reading Order

  1. 1
  2. 2

    Building a Character

    • 299 pages
    • 11 hours of reading
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    "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)

    Building a Character
  3. 3

    Creating a Role

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    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)

    Creating a Role