Creating a Role - Bloomsbury Revelations

Creating A Role is the third book - alongside the international bestseller An Actor Prepares and Building A Character - in the series of influential translations that introduced Stanislavski's acting 'system' to the English-speaking world. Here Stanislavski describes the elaborate preparation that an actor must undergo before the actual performance itself. Now published in the Bloomsbury Revelations series to mark the 150th anniversary of Stanislavski's birth, the book includes the director's analysis of such works as Othello and Gogol's Inspector General.

About the author

Constantin Stanislavski died in 1938 and is the most influential person in actor training to date. As co-founder of the Moscow Art Theatre, he developed his theories of acting.John Gillett is the author of Acting on Impulse - Reclaiming the Stanislavski Approach (Methuen Drama, 2007); the second edition, Acting Stanislavski – A practical guide to Stanislavski’s approach and legacy (Bloomsbury, 2014); and Voice into Acting - Integrating voice and the Stanislavski approach (Bloomsbury 2014, and now in a second edition, 2021). He has also written articles on acting and the preface for a new edition of Stanislavski’s Creating a Role (Bloomsbury Revelations, 2013). John trained as an actor in the approach of Stanislavski and Michael Chekhov and has worked widely in theatre, radio, film and television. He has taught and directed in many drama schools, including RADA, LAMDA, CSSD, and GSA, and was Head of the Post Graduate Acting Course at East 15. John has run acting workshops here and aboad, is a member of Equity and has had a prominent role in the writing of recent arts policy documents for Equity and the Creative and Leisure Industries Committee of the TUC.

Product details

• Authors: Constantin Stanislavski, Konstantin Stanislavski, Stanislavski Constantin, Konstantin S. Stanislawski
• Assisted by: Hermine I. Popper (Editor), Gillett John (Introduction), Elisabeth Reynolds Hapgood (Translation), Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood (Translation)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.04.2013
• EAN: 9781780936918
• ISBN: 978-1-78093-691-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 216 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Bloomsbury Revelations; Bloomsbury Revelations
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; Radio, einzelne Schauspieler und Darsteller, TV, Film, Kino, Fernsehen, TV, Schauspieltechniken, Theaterwissenschaft - Theatertheorie, Fernsehen - Privatfernsehen, Schauspieler - Schauspielkunst, Englische Bücher / Kunst, Architektur, Fotografie, PERFORMING ARTS / Acting & Auditioning, Acting techniques