The Great Acting Teachers and Their M..., Richard Brestoff
The Great Acting Teachers and Their M..., Richard Brestoff
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The Great Acting Teachers and Their Methods

Author: Richard Brestoff

Narrator: Tim Fannon

Unabridged: 6 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/14/2023


Synopsis

With clarity and insight, Richard Brestoff introduces the great acting teachers, explaining their techniques and how they are applied today. Beginning with Quintilian and Delsarte, he guides us to the present with an inside look at what is
currently being taught in the major acting schools and private acting studios; The Actors Studio, Yale University, NYU, Juilliard and many more are visited. The Great Acting Teachers and Their Methods will help you understand the most important
ideas about acting, where they originated and how they are used in training programs today. Some of the teachers focused on are Stella Adler, Sanford Meisner, Lee Strasberg, Brecht, Stanislavski and Suzuki.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James on July 14, 2020

chatpers 7,8,9 were good but the other ones were kinda wack.......more

Goodreads review by Laura Beth on May 20, 2014

Insightful thoughts form the greats on the acting process. Good for perusal.......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on March 03, 2024

It felt like a sparknotes version of The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act but to the author's credit, he actually focused on non-American forms of theater training... even if they were the shortest chapters in the book. I found the way the author put the reader as a participant in th......more

Goodreads review by Tinkerbell on April 02, 2014

This was a great source for me in school. It also really helped me when I was teaching a unit on Stanislavski and his system in comparison with other acting methods. It has great suggestions for exercises although it only uses them to illustrate. In other words it does not list tons of exercises tha......more

Goodreads review by J. Aleksandr on May 09, 2014

Informative, helpful, and engaging. Part history of drama, part biography, part criticism and commentary, part instruction. Recommended for anyone who needs to get up in front of an audience and wants to leave a positive impression.......more