Active Analysis

Maria Knebel, Anatoli Vassiliev, Irina Brown

• Verlag: Routledge
• Jahr: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781136448928
• Auflage: 1
• Thema: Media & Performing Arts
• Thema: Acting & Auditioning

Active Analysis combines two of Maria Knebel's most important books, On Active Analysis of the Play and the Role and The Word in the Actor's Creative Work, in a single edition conceived and edited by one of Knebel's most famous students, the renowned theatre and film director, Anatoli Vassiliev.

This is the first English translation of an important and authoritative fragment of the great Stanislavski jigsaw. A landmark publication.

This book is an indispensable resource for professional directors, student directors, actors and researchers interested in Stanislavski, directing, rehearsal methods and theatre studies more generally.

Index

• accents 136, 155, 157, 177; and correct pronunciation 152; regional 152; students attempt to get rid of superfluous ‘accentuation’ 155
• active analysis 17–18, 20, 22, 38, 42–3, 46, 48, 52, 54–80, 82–4, 108–10, 113; general principles 27–36; methodology of 8, 13, 17–18, 20, 22, 26, 48, 56, 77, 82; period of 76; process of 35, 77; students of 78; use of 59
• actors 13–22, 26–36, 38–44, 52–6, 61–5, 67–84, 91–5, 97–111, 113–28, 134–8, 140–4, 151–5, 157–8, 160–2, 165–79, 182–6, 188–91, 200–4, 219–26, 233–5; Alexander Lensky 91, 124, 168n3, 168, 241–2; Alexander Yuzhin 33; Amtman-Briedit 219; Bolduman 219; Chekhov, Mikhail Aleksandrovich “Michael” 194n1, 195, 201; craftsmanship 174; and directors 36, 116, 125, 188; figurative thinking onstage 117; I.M. Kudryavtsev 196; imagination 29, 38, 41, 69–70, 75, 93, 99, 101, 207; Ivan Dmitrevsky 91, 91n2; Ivan Moskvin 81, 100, 176; Konstantin Varlamov 91, 169; Leonid Leonidov 75, 80, 169–71, 176, 186; liberating 9, 18, 101; Livanov 219; Maria Yermolova 91, 124...