ABSTRACT

Active Analysis combines two of Maria Knebel’s most important books, On Active Analysis of the Play and the Role and The Word in the Actor’s Creative Work, in a single edition conceived and edited by one of Knebel's most famous students, the renowned theatre and film director, Anatoli Vassiliev.

This is the first English translation of an important and authoritative fragment of the great Stanislavski jigsaw. A landmark publication.

This book is an indispensable resource for professional directors, student directors, actors and researchers interested in Stanislavski, directing, rehearsal methods and theatre studies more generally.

chapter |3 pages

Beginnings

chapter |20 pages

About Maria Knebel

part Book One|61 pages

On Active Analysis of the Play and the Role

chapter |1 pages

Author's foreword

chapter |9 pages

General principles of active analysis

chapter |4 pages

Given circumstances

chapter |4 pages

Events

chapter |4 pages

Assessing the facts 1

chapter |2 pages

The Supertask

chapter |2 pages

Throughaction

chapter |9 pages

Etude rehearsals

chapter |4 pages

The second plane

chapter |3 pages

Inner monologue

chapter |5 pages

Mental images 1

chapter |5 pages

Characteristics/Characterisation 1

chapter |4 pages

Creative atmosphere

chapter |4 pages

Conclusion

part Book Two|106 pages

The Word in the Actor's Creative Work

chapter |3 pages

Author's foreword

chapter |7 pages

Word is action

chapter |15 pages

Analysis through action

chapter |4 pages

Assessing the facts

chapter |10 pages

Mental images

chapter |14 pages

Studies in artistic recitation

chapter |10 pages

Inner monologue

chapter |16 pages

Technique and logic of speech 1

chapter |5 pages

Psychological pause

chapter |4 pages

Adaptations 1

chapter |12 pages

Tempo-rhythm

chapter |5 pages

Conclusion

part |17 pages

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