In Stanislavski and the Actor , Stanislavski scholar and biographer Jean Bendetti has recovered materials that can stand as a final, last work by the great director and teacher. In this volume readers will find the first English text of Stanislavski s notes and practical exercises from these last sessions. This is a major rediscovered work by Stanislavski, full of new ideas and insights about his working method. To the original materials Jean Benedetti adds his own analysis of Stanislavski...

Jean Benedetti's Stanislavski is the clearest and most succinct explanation of Stanislavski's writings and ideas, especially those in the Stanislavski's acting trilogy – An Actor Prepares, Building a Character, and Creating a Role – a staple of every actor's library.Now available in an attractive new edition, Stanislavski: An Introduction provides the perfect guide through the Master's writing.

'A small jewel of a book, a knowleageable introduction to bothStanislavski's personal development and to the content and range of hiswritings' Theatre Journal'...shows the System to be a practical process - drama school students and actors will be grateful for it' Times Eductational Supplement'A carefully documented study of peak interest and value to every serious student of acting theory' ChoiceThe Stanislavski 'system' is st...

Moscow Art Theatre Letters tells the real story of the Moscow Art Theatre, from its origin at the turn of the century through its first forty years. Jean Benedetti presents the historical record first-hand in this collection of the letters of the main protagonists. Many are available in English for the first time--all will come as a revelation to Western readers.

Demain, je m'enfuis de l'enfer est un roman à suspens. L'histoire se passe dans les années 1960 - 1970. Un homme de trente ans dont l'identité et les raisons de sa présence dans un hôpital psychiatrique se révèlent peu à peu raconte son histoire, son passé, son présent qu'il revoit par bribes. On sait peu de choses sur lui. Il vit à Bordeaux, près de la Garonne et des quais du port. Né dans une famille d'émigrés espagnols qui ont fui l'Espagne franquiste, il connaît très tôt l'enfermement ...

Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language.Volume One of Brecht's Collected Plays contains Brecht's first performed stage works. Baal is inspired by Brecht's student life in Augsburg and follows the life of a young poet on the rocky road to inspiration; Drums in the Night was written in response to Brecht's experience as a me...

An Actor’s Work on a Role is Konstantin Stanislavski’s exploration of the rehearsal process, applying the techniques of his seminal actor training system to the task of bringing truth to one’s chosen role.Originally published over half a century ago as Creating a Role, this book was the third in a planned trilogy – after An Actor Prepares and Building a Character, now combined in An Actor’s Work – in which Stanislavski sets out his psych...

Que s’est-il vraiment passé à Gorgo al Monticano en 1920 ? Quels secrets leur arrière-grand-père leur a-t-il cachés ? Dans les années 80, adultes, Nunzio et Enzo veulent des réponses. Ils partent les chercher en Italie. Là où tout a commencé. Un voyage qui les marquera à jamais et qui bouleversera le cours de leur vie."Dunac, Lot-et-Garonne, France, 1964. Il prend une motte de terre entre ses mains. Il l’effrite devant le visage des deux garçons. Ils ont dix ans. Ils regardent le v...

Konstantin Stanislavski was a Russian director who transformed theatre in the West with his contributions to the birth of Realist theatre and his unprecedented approach to teaching acting. He lived through extraordinary times and his unique contribution to the arts still endures in the twenty-first century. He established the Moscow Art Theatre in 1898 with, among other plays, the premiere of Chekhov's The Seagull. He also survived revolutions, lost his fortune, found wide fame in...

Il male viene da lontano e non conosce confini.A Parigi è notte fonda. Per le strade non si scorge anima viva e i quartieri sono immersi in una spettrale immobilità. Tutti tranne uno. Nel X arrondissement, in uno dei night club più frequentati, si è da poco consumato l’omicidio di una ballerina, il cui corpo è stato orrendamente sfigurato. Il primo a raggiungere la scena del delitto è il comandante della Brigata criminale Stéphane Corso, convinto di trovarsi di fronte all’ennesima ...

« Cher lecteur, mon semblable, mon frère,Je t’écris de la main gauche qui ne se risque pas à sertir l’anneau d’or des convictions. Je t’écris de la main gauche qui désigne les calamités, les chagrins et les déconvenues pour mieux les dépasser, car elle prétend aussi nommer les beautés du monde, la joie des épreuves surmontées, les étreintes de l’amour. »Écrites aux quatre coins du monde, de Zanzibar à Lisbonne, en passant par la Grèce, le Maghreb et la France, ces courtes his...

« Ça a commencé comme ça. Dans un train. Il rentrait d’un voyage au Rajasthan. Elle l’a appelé au téléphone. Elle a dit qu’il y avait une zone d’ombre entre eux. Il a ri. Ça c’était sûr. Il y avait toujours eu des zones d’ombre entre eux. Il l’entendait mal. Quoi ? Une ombre ? Où ça ? Répète. Quoi ? Où ? Ça a coupé. Puis la liaison est revenue. Le wagon vibrait. L’espace exigu de la cabine téléphonique a soudain été envahi par la zone d’ombre. »C’est l’histoire d’un voyage...