5 Top plays books like Creating A Role by Constantin Stanislavski

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Creating A Role

By: Constantin Stanislavski

4.13

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

Creating a Role is the culmination of Stanislavski's masterful trilogy on the art of acting. An Act…

"In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel"

-Constantin Stanislavski, Creating A Role

"In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel"

-Constantin Stanislavski, Creating A Role

If you liked the plays plot in Creating A Role by Constantin Stanislavski , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by None, H.T. Willetts, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

By: None , H.T. Willetts , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

3.98

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn First published in the Soviet… read more

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  • school
"A couple of ounces ruled your life."

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

"It's all so arty there's no art left in it."

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

"Two roubles. Worn notes that didn't rustle."

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

"Гении не подгоняют трактовку под вкус тиранов!"

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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2. Everyman

By: Anonymous , Unknown

3.27

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

Everyman is a medieval morality play that was first performed in the late 15th century. The play te… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • school
  • drama
Cover of The Recognitions by William H. Gass, William Gaddis

3. The Recognitions

By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

Format: 976 pages, Paperback

The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more

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  • art
"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

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4. Stanislavski: An Introduction

By: Jean Benedetti

3.75

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The Stanislavski 'system' is still the only comprehensive method of actor training we possess. It i… read more

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  • theatre
  • art
Cover of Sanford Meisner on Acting by Sanford Meisner, Dennis Longwell, Sydney Pollack

5. Sanford Meisner on Acting

By: Sanford Meisner , Dennis Longwell , Sydney Pollack

4.20

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

This book, written in collaboration with Dennis Longwell, follows an acting class of eight men and … read more

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  • art
  • film
  • theatre
  • nonfiction
  • plays
  • drama
"The text is your greatest enemy."

-Sanford Meisner, Sanford Meisner on Acting

"The American actor is very lucky... Because so little is asked of him."

-Sanford Meisner, Sanford Meisner on Acting

"... as a convention, you get up and walk to the window to make the audience believe that you're looking out. It's for the audience , not for you! And what it means to you is something emotional [...]…"

-Sanford Meisner, Sanford Meisner on Acting

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6. Pushkin Hills

By: Sergei Dovlatov , Katherine Dovlatov

4.18

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

An unsuccessful writer and an inveterate alcoholic, Boris Alikhanov has recently divorced his wife … read more

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7. Lysistrata

By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more

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  • plays
  • school
  • drama
"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

8. The Power of the Actor: The Chubbuck Technique -- The 12-Step Acting Technique That Will Take You from Script to a Living, Breathing, Dynamic Character

By: Ivana Chubbuck

3.94

Format: 489 pages,

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  • theatre
  • art
  • nonfiction
  • film

9. The 39 Steps

By: John Buchan , Patrick Barlow

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps was the novel that introduced readers to the cunning Richard Ha… read more

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10. Wolverine

By: Chris Claremont , Frank Miller , Paul Smith

4.04

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

The master of mutants joins the master of ninjas in Wolverine's first solo series - replete with ro… read more

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"The better to slay me?! Mt healing factors make me a mutant. Lacing my bones with adamantium and giving me these claws, that was done to me. but, you asked to be changed. You did this to yourself. Th…"

-Chris Claremont, Wolverine

Cover of Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1) by Aeschylus, Patricia E. Easterling, John Harrison, Judith Affleck, None

11. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None

3.83

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more

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  • plays
  • school
"Every medicine is vain."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"A curse burns bright on crime."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"There is no avoidance in delay."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"In war, the first casualty is truth."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

12. Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making

By: Michael Caine

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

(Applause Acting Series). A master actor who's appeared in an enormous number of films, starring wi… read more

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13. A Dream of Passion: The Development of the Method

By: None

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

The definitive source book on acting. Los Angeles Times Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Paul Newman, Dust… read more

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14. Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches

By: Tony Kushner

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pulitzer Prize-winner for Drama, 1993. The first part of Tony Kushner's epic drama of America in th… read more

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15. The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

By: Bertolt Brecht , John Willett , Ralph Manheim

3.23

Format: 304 pages,

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (German: Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny) is a politic… read more

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16. Spring's Awakening

By: Eric Bentley , Frank Wedekind

4.03

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Spring's Awakening is a tragi-comedy of teenage sex. Its fourteen-year-old heroine, Wendla, is kill… read more

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17. Stanislavski and the Actor

By: Jean Benedetti

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

In "Stanislavski and the Actor," Stanislavski scholar and biographer Jean Bendetti has recovered ma… read more

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18. Respect for Acting

By: Uta Hagen , None

3.20

Format: None pages,

Respect for Acting "This fascinating and detailed book about acting is Miss Hagen's credo, the accu… read more

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19. Shakespeare's Sonnets

By: William Shakespeare , Katherine Duncan-Jones

4.45

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

T.S. Eliot once wrote that, "Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion," and it is this… read more

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20. The Complete Works

By: William Shakespeare

4.28

Format: None pages, Leather Bound

The tempest -- Two gentlemen of Verona -- Merry wives of Windsor -- Twelfth night, or, What you wil… read more

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21. Creating A Role

By: Constantin Stanislavski

4.13

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

Creating a Role is the culmination of Stanislavski's masterful trilogy on the art of acting. An Act… read more

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  • music
  • art
  • history
  • film
  • school
  • theatre
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • plays
  • drama
"In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel"

-Constantin Stanislavski, Creating A Role

5 must-read school books like Creating A Role by Constantin Stanislavski

Transform Your Habits

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

None , H.T. Willetts , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Everyman

Anonymous , Unknown

3.27

Transform Your Habits

Lysistrata

Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None

3.83

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12 must-read nonfiction books like The Power of the Actor: The Chubbuck Technique -- The 12-Step Acting Technique That Will Take You from Script to a Living, Breathing, Dynamic Character by Ivana Chubbuck

Transform Your Habits

Creating Character Arcs: The Masterful Author's Guide to Uniting Story Structure, Plot, and Character Development

K.M. Weiland

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Actions: The Actors' Thesaurus

Marina Caldarone , Maggie Lloyd-Williams

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Sanford Meisner on Acting

Sanford Meisner , Dennis Longwell , Sydney Pollack

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part

Michael Shurtleff

4.00

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