Irene Worth to students of an acting class
THE FOUR VIRTUES: VIRTUE NUMBER TWO
By Cameron Thor and Kimon Fioretos Completeness of Action Completeness of Action invites the actor to become thorough, thoughtful, and resolved in their body and their body’s relationship to its surroundings. To master both the root and boundary of movement. In the character’s physical life, the actor will apply “complete” both as an adjective: “having no […]
A bit of history
Nikolay Vasilyevich Demidov’s third book “The Art of Living on Stage” is a culmination of his forty years of theatrical and pedagogical work. Initially conceived as a single book, Demidov’s work expanded into a planned series of five books. Before his death in 1953, he completed three of these books, while the remaining two existed […]
Boris Zon and Stanislavski (Part 2) THE SECRET
READ AFTER READING PART 1 The single secret to the entire ‘system’ ( The Single Secret to the Entire ‘Method’ of Strasberg the one things he got right — Meisner tried to get there via “independent activity” i.e distraction of attention but as we know that’s just a trick discovered by Stanislavsky, note : please […]
Boris Zon and Stanislavski (Part 1)
(Physical actions, drilling, etudes, and active analysis) From the Boris Zon memoirs: Konstantin Stanislavski (compiled and translated by a method teacher) Here’s what the brilliant Russian teacher of Stanislavsky’s ‘system’ – the unknown (in the West) Boris Zon wrote in his 1955 memoir about his time repeatedly observing Stanislavsky’s classes and rehearsals near the end […]
