Theater as life : practical wisdom drawn from great acting teachers, actors & actresses / by Paul Marcus ; with Gabriela Marcus.
Publisher: Milwaukee, Wisconsin : Marquette University Press, [2011]Description: 1 online resource (263 pages)Content type:- text
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- 9780874620696 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0874620694 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780874620702 (e-book)
- 792.02/8 23
- PN2071.P78 M37 2011eb

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Theater as life -- Emotion recollected in tranquility: Lee Strasberg's "method" -- The miracle of the imagination: Stella Adler -- The reality of doing: Sanford Meisner -- Act before you think: the improvisation of Viola Spolin -- Real living is political: Bertolt Brecht -- Connecting the body to the head: Tadashi Suzuki -- The quest for self-transcendence: Jerzy Grotowski's holy actor -- The jester is the brother to the sage -- What we can learn from comedians, comic actors & clowns -- "Deny nothing, invent nothing,accept everything and get on with it": -- David mamet's practical aesthetics -- Love art in yourselves, not yourselves in art: Constantin Stanislavski -- The art of living the "good life": thoughts and musings from the actor's perspective.
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