Creating a Role

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Creating a Role
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AuthorKonstantin Stanislavski
TranslatorElizabeth Reynolds Hapgood
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian
SubjectActing
Published
  • 1957
  • 1961 (Theatre Art Books)
Media typePrint
Preceded byBuilding a Character 

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 (1936) and Building a Character (1948), 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.[1]

Contents[]

Part I: Griboyedov's Woe from Wit

  1. The Period of Study
  2. The Period of Emotional Experience
  3. The Period of Physical Embodiment

Part II: Shakespeare's Othello

  1. First Acquaintance
  2. Creating the Physical Life of a Role
  3. Analysis
  4. Checking Work Done and Summing Up

Part III: Gogol's The Inspector General

  1. From Physical Actions to Living Image

Appendices

  1. Supplement to Creating a Role
  2. Improvisations on Othello

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Stanislavski, Constantin; Gillett, John (2013). "Preface to the Bloomsbury Revelations Edition". Creating a Role. Bloomsbury. pp. vii–viii. ISBN 978-1-78093-691-8. OCLC 821702510.

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