An Actor Prepares

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Summary: Excellent not only for actors but for any performing artist!
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Stanislavski himself says, "My system is for those who have a creative nature. It's for the talented". On stage or on a movie set you have to be believable. All musicians should read this book (or any performing artist in that matter). It would be a priceless benefit for them... For instance, many soloists these days are displaying an unnatural, forced "phrasing". If they were asked to speak the way they play, the result would be so fake or even funny that they'd realize it in a flash.


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Summary: An Actor Prepares to teach us well.
Review: An Actor Prepares by Constantine Stanislavski is a great read. This reading in my opinion is the "bible" for all begining actor/actress who wants to learn and understand acting. The book shows the reader the "Stanislavski codes" without the 'how to do' or essay form. The book is more like a journal, filled with stories that teach us, and methods that help us. The book expresses issues such as overacting and mechanical to the heart and real-ness we must put into our characters, to become them, to live them in order to believe them.

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Summary: Essential material for the actor and director
Review: An Actor Prepares is a must-read for anyone wanting to pursue theatre. The Stanislavski System is the root for all things theatre and An Actor Prepares is the root of the system. As we follow a Stanislavski student though the class, we acquire the basis skills needed to ferment the acting talent.

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Summary: As a working actor, this book serves as my bible.
Review: An Actor's Prepares is a teaching book that is written as a story. The theory is within the story. The "story" touches on things like relaxation, movement and concentration. You are one of the students, you learn the same method as the other students in the story. You will progress with them and in the end, you will have the sense on being "private in public". If you are an actor, or thinking of pursuing a career as an actor, this is a MUST READ! I still use this bokk as a guide to get me back on track when I feel that I am slipping in my craft. I love this book because of the way Stanislavski is preserved here. His teaching style shines through. This is the first book in a trilogy of the Stanislavski "Method" My advise for reading this book. Read it slow and digest every individual thought as if it were your last meal. You will learn not only about improving your ability to act, but also come away with a better feeling of who you are as a person, not just as an actor!

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Summary: As a working actor, this book serves as my bible.
Review: An Actor's Prepares is a teaching book that is written as a story. The theory is within the story. The "story" touches on things like relaxation, movement and concentration. You are one of the students, you learn the same method as the other students in the story. You will progress with them and in the end, you will have the sense on being "private in public". If you are an actor, or thinking of pursuing a career as an actor, this is a MUST READ! I still use this bokk as a guide to get me back on track when I feel that I am slipping in my craft. I love this book because of the way Stanislavski is preserved here. His teaching style shines through. This is the first book in a trilogy of the Stanislavski "Method" My advise for reading this book. Read it slow and digest every individual thought as if it were your last meal. You will learn not only about improving your ability to act, but also come away with a better feeling of who you are as a person, not just as an actor!

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Summary: read for class
Review: I am a student at the University of Indy. Being a theatre Ed major I must take acting 1. WE have to read all of staislavskis abc books. This one is a great book! It is a bit lsow at teh start but once you get into it you feel as if you too are sitting in the class. If you are an acting studet adn you dont ahve to read it Do so. If you have to you wont regreat the time you set aside to do so. =)

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Summary: Stanislavski's Blueprint Pulses With Life and Passion
Review: I found "An Actor Prepares" to be a deeply rewarding read, and I found its message applicable to all of the arts. Opening a window to a time and place where great strides were made in the modern theater, we join a fictionalized group of students awaiting their first lesson with the great master "Tortsov" (really Stanislavski.) I simply drank in Constantin Stanislavski's wisdom, enjoyed his consummate readability, and shivered in amazement that he was able to advance the philosophy and praxis of acting to such heights at the time that he wrote - he lived from 1863 to 1938. I'm currently inhaling the second volume in this series: "Building A Character." I fully intend round out my reading with some Strasberg, Meisner etc. after I finish Stanislavski's trilogy, but at this moment I am quite content to be able to gaze back in time to the Moscow Art Company, and imagine that I'm there amid the heady acting sessions of these books. Although trailblazers and pioneers in any art or science rarely leave a perfectly polished jewel as their legacy, it is a great mistake to pass over their immense contributions. Read Stanislavski as the great building block he was in the technique of acting.

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Summary: Stanislavski's Blueprint Pulses With Life and Passion
Review: I found "An Actor Prepares" to be a deeply rewarding read, and I found its message applicable to all of the arts. Opening a window to a time and place where great strides were made in the modern theater, we join a fictionalized group of students awaiting their first lesson with the great master "Tortsov" (really Stanislavski.) I simply drank in Constantin Stanislavski's wisdom, enjoyed his consummate readability, and shivered in amazement that he was able to advance the philosophy and praxis of acting to such heights at the time that he wrote - he lived from 1863 to 1938. I'm currently inhaling the second volume in this series: "Building A Character." I fully intend round out my reading with some Strasberg, Meisner etc. after I finish Stanislavski's trilogy, but at this moment I am quite content to be able to gaze back in time to the Moscow Art Company, and imagine that I'm there amid the heady acting sessions of these books. Although trailblazers and pioneers in any art or science rarely leave a perfectly polished jewel as their legacy, it is a great mistake to pass over their immense contributions. Read Stanislavski as the great building block he was in the technique of acting.

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Summary: The greates acting book ever
Review: I hated reading acting books, because most of them teach us how to conform to other actors. But I read this one at the recommendation of a verrry smart friend, and I learned so much more from it about characterization than I could have without it. A great book.

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Summary: How to act.
Review: I have only a short comment for this incredible book: READ IT!