“In the Beginning Was the Word”
On July 21, 1938, shortly before Stanislavski’s death, a manuscript of An Actor Prepares was brought to him at Leontyevsky for his approval before printing. Lying on a couch in his spacious office—divided by Swedish bookshelves, behind which the “medical department” monitoring his health was concealed—he was handed unbound pages of the future book. “When […]
[…] Art is always in search of the eternal questions: “why?”, “who?”, and “how?”.
Sometimes people say:— There are no rules or laws in art!They quote Mayakovsky:— All poetry is a journey into the unknown! Such conclusions are sometimes considered necessary to pass on not only to young poets but also to young actors, painters, and musicians. And in saying this, they refer to Salieri, who “devoured music like […]
