Acting: The First Six Lessons: Documents from the American Laboratory Theatre

A key text for drama students today. These dramatic dialogues between the teacher and 'The Creature' - an idealistic student - explore the 'craft' of acting according to one of the godfathers of method acting. Now with a new introduction and bibliography.

"This enhanced edition gives the reader an opportunity to explore the craft of acting, improve acting technique, and increase appreciation of good theater practice. It also offers a valuable historical perspective on the birth and evolution of the American acting process in the early 20th century."

CHOICE, Jan 2011

Author: Richard Boleslavsky
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 08/01/2010
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780415563864

About the Author

Richard Boleslavsky (1889-1937) (born Ryszard Boleslawski) was a Polish actor and director. He was a member of the Moscow Art Theatre and director of its First Studio. He emigrated to New York in the 1920s and was the first teacher of the Stanislavski system of acting in the West. He went on to produce plays on Broadway and was a leading Hollywood director in the 1930s.

Rhonda Blair is Professor of Theatre at Southern Methodist University. She is a leading voice on the applications of cognitive science on the acting process and the author of The Actor, Image, and Action: Acting and Cognitive Neuroscience. She is currently the President of the American Society of Theatre Research (ASTR).