Theater As Life Practical Wisdom Drawn from Great Acting Teachers, Actors and Actresses

Name: Theater As Life Practical Wisdom Drawn from Great Acting Teachers, Actors and Actresses
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ISBN: 9780874620696

ISBN-10: 0874620694

ISBN-13: 9780874620696

Edition: 2011

Authors: Paul Marcus, Gabreila Marcus

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Rather than focus on the well-known truism that great plays and dramatic performances can deeply transform and ennoble us, Marcus draws from a much less known dimension of theatre, namely, acting technique theory, how actors and actresses learn dramatic performance as an art, profession and way of life. They claim the emotional, intellectual and physical insights the actor must internalize and ultimately translate into action to become a great actor are technique[s] of the self that can be enormously helpful to the average person struggling with the problem of living a better life, the good life, as they call it. Drawing from the psychological insights of Constantin Stanislavski and other…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Marquette University Press
Publication date: 1/30/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 263
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Paul Marcus is a supervising and training analyst at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. He is the author of Being for The Other: Emmanuel Levinas, Ethical Living and Psychoanalysis; Autonomy in the Extreme Situation: Bruno Bettelheim, the Nazi Concentration Camps, and Mass Society and Ancient Religious Wisdom, Spirituality and Psychoanalysis, among other books. Dr Marcus is married with two children and lives in Great Neck, New York.