1st Edition

Stanislavski in Practice - The Film Part Two

By Nick O'Brien Copyright 2017
30 Pages
by Routledge

Stanislavski in Practice - the Film, Part Two: Work on a Role extends and completes the work begun in Part One: Work on the Actor . Nick O’Brien takes a practical approach to the second part of Stanislavski’s system, the actor’s work on a role, with exercises based on those used by Stanislavski at the Moscow Art Theatre.   A close companion to O'Brien's bestselling book for students,... Read more

Chapter 1 Objectives

Chapter 2 Action

Chapter 3 Practicing Actions

Chapter 4 Events and Unexpected Events

Chapter 5 Life in Art

Chapter 6 The Super Objective and Germ

Chapter 7 Exploring text

Rehearsing A Streetcar Named Desire

Chapter 8 Active Analysis using A Streetcar Named Desire

Chapter 9 Bringing it all together

 

Chapter 10 In conversation with students from Rose Bruford at Symposium 2015

Chapter 11 Interview with Nick O’Brien

 

Biography

Nick O'Brien trained as an Actor and Director for 4 years under Sam Kogan, a pupil of Maria Knebel. He founded and runs The Stanislavski Experience, a drama workshop company, and is Head of Drama at the New London Performing Arts Centre.

Peter J Walsh has an extensive background as a Director/Producer/Editor making music promos (five top ten promos), commercials (two top ten viral commercials) drama and documentaries.