Creating a Role

Creating a Role
Author	Konstantin Stanislavski
Translator	Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood
Language	Russian
Subject	Acting
Published	1957; 1961 (Theatre Art Books);
Publication place	Soviet Union
Media type	Print
Preceded by	Building a Character

Creating a Role is theatre actor/director Constantin Stanislavski's third and final book on his method for learning the art of acting. It was first published in Russian in 1957; Theatre Art Books published an English-language edition, translated by Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood, in 1961.

In the two preceding installments, An Actor Prepares (1936) and Building a Character (1948), Stanislavski describes ways in which an actor imagines the lived experience of their character, and then expresses that inner life and persona through speech and movement. Creating a Role applies these principles to rehearsal, in which the actor improves their understanding of the role, and how it fits the script.^[1]

^ Stanislavski, Constantin; Gillett, John (2013). "Preface to the Bloomsbury Revelations Edition". Creating a Role. Bloomsbury. pp. vii–viii. ISBN 978-1-78093-691-8. OCLC 821702510.

[1] Stanislavski, Constantin; Gillett, John (2013). "Preface to the Bloomsbury Revelations Edition". Creating a Role. Bloomsbury. pp. vii–viii. ISBN 978-1-78093-691-8. OCLC 821702510.

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