1st Edition
Systems of Rehearsal Stanislavsky, Brecht, Grotowski, and Brook
By Shomit Mitter
Copyright 1992
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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The gap between theory and practice in rehearsal is wide. many actors and directors apply theories without fully understanding them, and most accounts of rehearsal techniques fail to put the methods in context. Systems of Rehearsal is the first systematic appraisal of the three principal paradigms in which virtually all theatre work is conducted today - those developed by Stanislavsky, Brecht... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 To be:, Konstantin Stanislavsky, Brook Peter; Chapter 2 To be and not to be:, Bertolt Brecht, Brook Peter; Chapter 3 Let be:, Jerzy Grotowski, Brook Peter; Epilogue a Multi-Faceted Ontology in Performance;
Biography
Shomit Mitter conducted most of his research for this book at Cambridge University and in workshop with Peter Brook, Richard a year at the University of Nottingham and now works as a freelance Schechner and the Dhurva tribes of Central India. He taught drama for writer in London.
`Excellent account of methodologies of modern directors' - R Roberts, Sheffield University
