Acting Realism

<p><b>If you are struggling to decipher your Boal from your Brecht, your Meisner from your Marowitz, or your Adler from your Artaud, this is the book for you.</b><br><br><i>Who are the great teachers and theorists of dramatic art? </i><br><i>What methods are associated with which practitioners? </i><br><i>How does their work connect to one another? </i><br><i>When was 'realism' as a concept born?</i><br><i>How did David Garrick's ideas about acting impact those of Stanislavski, Grotowski and Brecht? </i><br><i>What were the foundational ideas of Joan Littlewood?</i><br><br>All of these questions and many, many more are answered in this book, which offers a refreshingly accessible survey of the major acting teachers from the early 1700s up to the present day. <br><br>It looks at what their major influences were, where their ideas came from and their legacy. <br><br>Structured by practitioner and arranged in chronological order, this much-needed book brings together the foundational acting theories that have shaped the arts scene for centuries.</p>