The Stanislavski System: The Professional Training of an Actor

By Sonia Moore

Book Overview

Practical tips, techniques, and exercises to help you become a better actor

This essential guide to the Stanislavski method has long been a favorite among acting students and teachers. This updated edition includes a revised section on the subtext of a role, along with detailed explanations of all the methods that actors in training have found indispensable for decades, including:

- Emotional memory
- Physical actions on stage
- Imagination
- Concentration of attention
- Tempo-rhythm
- Building a character

Designed to create better actors, this guide will put individuals in touch with themselves and increase personal sensitivity.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140466606
• ISBN13: 9780140466607
• Release Date: October 1984
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Very accesible!

I highly recommend this book for anyone curious in "method acting" or Stanislavsky. Sonia Moore does a wonderful job summarizing his ideas, making them accessible without dumbing or watering anything down.

Stanislavski System - S.Moore

This is a great book. I have it as a required reading for my first year acting students. I would recommend it to anyone looking for a clear condensation of the Stanislavski system.

Clear up your mistaken ideas about acting!

The Stanislavski System: The Professional Training of an Actor has been the soul of my acting teaching for 30 years. It is based on the later evolved vision of the great master teacher, as revealed to Eugene Vakhtangov and also to Sonia Moore, herself a master teacher. The approach here is clear and usable, and de-mystifies American pre-occupation with emotional substitution techniques dominant since Lee Strasberg's distortions based only upon Stanislavski's early work. This approach is accessible for young actors and is encouraging to the nurturing of their talent and development. It encourages emotional honesty without being improperly invasive, so it is good resource material for public school acting teachers and advanced students, as well as acting students from college to conservatory to proprietary school.

Time to act!

This is a great book- much more simplified than any I've seen! It concentrates a lot on physical action, a definite necessity for budding actors (or old fogies trying to get back into it!). A pleasurable read!

A good book for the method actor.

This book is made and talks about the teachings of the great Konstantin Stanislavski, a name you should know if you are an actor. It has chapters outlining the Method, and it'll help your acting abilities galore