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This volume completes, with An Actor Prepares and Building a Character, the trilogy in which Stanislavski set down his life’s accomplishment.
Creating a Role describes the elaborate preparation that precedes actual performance. Stanislavski here relates the techniques he describes in his preceding books to analyzing specific plays and their roles.
This volume completes, with An Actor Prepares and Building a Character, the trilogy in which Stanislavski set down his life’s accomplishment.
Creating a Role describes the elaborate preparation that precedes actual performance. Stanislavski here relates the techniques he describes in his preceding books to analyzing specific plays and their roles.
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