1st Edition

Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting

By Jonathan Pitches Copyright 2006
236 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction: Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting   Part 1.  1. A System for the World? Newtonianism in Stanislavsky’s Science of Acting  Part 2.  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  Part 3.  4. A Delicate Empiricism: Romantic Science and the Michael Chekhov Technique  5. The Laboratory as Sanctuary: The Theatre of Anatoly Vasiliev Epilogue: Genetic Modification and the Backbone of Tradition Bibliography.  Index

Biography

Jonathan Pitches