Name: Stanislavsky. A Life
SKU: 64843087
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Author: David Magarshack
ISBN: 9780571268993

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Publisher

Faber and Faber

Author

David Magarshack

Year

2010

Pages

430

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.8x14x3.4 cm

ISBN13

9780571268993

Stanislavsky. A Life

David Magarshack (Author) · Faber and Faber · Paperback

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Synopsis "Stanislavsky. A Life"

As Irving Wardle says in his foreword to this edition (1986), David Magarshack's biography - first published in 1950 - offers 'a vigorous, highly readable narrative that succeeds in demystifying the working of the Moscow Art Theatre, and in removing Stanislavsky from his pedestal without cutting him down to size.

Konstantin Stanislavsky is one of the colossi not simply of Russian, but American and European theatre. The works of the creator of the Stanislavsky System - which later gave rise to the Method - have tended to shroud him in mystique, leading his followers to revere him as a saint and his detractors to dismiss him out of hand. As Irving Wardle says in his foreword to this edition (1986), David Magarshack''s biography - first published in 1950 - offers ''a vigorous, highly readable narrative that succeeds in demystifying the working of the Moscow Art Theatre, and in removing Stanislavsky from his pedestal without cutting him down to size. To his autobiographical writings, Magarshack supplied the companion piece - A Life - and as such it remains unsuperseded.''