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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823603803321

Autore

Pitches Jonathan <1968-, >

Titolo

Science and the Stanislavsky tradition of acting / / Jonathan Pitches

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2006

ISBN

1-134-33232-7

1-134-33233-5

1-280-28201-0

9786610282012

0-203-39120-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Collana

Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; ; 3

Disciplina

792.02/8

Soggetti

Method acting

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [210]-219) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedications; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Science and Stanislavsky-the Evolution of a Tradition; 1. A System for the World? Newtonianism in Stanislavsky's Science of Acting; 2. The Theatricality Reflex: the Place of Pavlov and Taylor in Meyerhold's Biomechanics; 3. The System, Psychology and the US: Richard Boleslavsky and Lee Strasberg; 4. A Delicate Empiricism: Romantic Science and the Michael Chekhov Technique; 5. The Laboratory as Sanctuary: the Theatre of Anatoly Vasiliev

Epilogue: Qenetic Modification and the Backbone of TraditionNotes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Providing new insight into the well-known tradition of acting, Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting is the first book to contextualise the Stanislavsky tradition with reference to parallel developments in science. Rooted in practice, it presents an alternative perspective based on philosophy, physics, romantic science and theories of industrial management.Working from historical and archive material, as well as practical sources, Jonathan Pitches traces an evolutionary journey of actor training from the roots of the Russian tradition, Konstantin Stanislavsky, to