Creating a Role
Creating a Role is theatre actor/director Constantin Stanislavski's third and final book on his method for learning the art of acting. It was first published in Russian in 1957; Theatre Art Books published an English-language edition, translated by Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood, in 1961.
In the two preceding installments, An Actor Prepares and Building a Character, Stanislavski describes ways in which an actor imagines the lived experience of their character, and then expresses that inner life and persona through speech and movement. Creating a Role applies these principles to rehearsal, in which the actor improves their understanding of the role, and how it fits the script.Contents
Part I: Griboyedov's Woe from Wit
Part II: Shakespeare's Othello
Part III: Gogol's The Inspector General
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