Stanislavski and the Actor

It is based on the course Stanislavski designed and taught with a team of hand-picked assistants in the last three years of his life (1935-38) at the Opera-Dramatic Studio in Moscow. This was his true testament on his teachings, but he never wrote it down in the form of notes

Jean Benedetti now reconstructs that course. Using notes made by Stanislavski's assistants, exercises and improvisations used in class, transcripts of Stanislavski's own master classes (translated here into English for the first time) and knowledge of Stanislavski's earlier writings, Benedetti builds up a comprehensive description of the system in contemporary language that is easy to understand by today's actors and teachers