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Acting Realism

Stephen Bayly
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Adolphe Appia
Antonin Artaud
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Bertolt Brecht
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David Garrick
Denis Diderot
Drama
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Jacques Lecoq
Joan Littlewood
Konstantin Stanislavski
Michael Chekhov
Moshe Feldenkrai
performance
Peter Brook
Rudolf Laban
Sanford Meisner
Satyajit Ray
Stella Adler (1901-1992)
theatre
Uta Hagen
Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko

Product details

  • ISBN 9781350320215
  • Weight: 540g
  • Dimensions: 190 x 246mm
  • Publication Date: 11 Dec 2025
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

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.

Who are the great teachers and theorists of dramatic art?
What methods are associated with which practitioners?
How does their work connect to one another?
When was 'realism' as a concept born?
How did David Garrick's ideas about acting impact those of Stanislavski, Grotowski and Brecht?
What were the foundational ideas of Joan Littlewood?

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.

It looks at what their major influences were, where their ideas came from and their legacy.

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.
About Stephen Bayly
Stephen Bayly is a respected director and producer with film credits including Coming Up Roses (1986), Just Ask for Diamond (1986), Richard III (1995) and Mrs Dalloway (1997). He was Director of the National Film and Television School UK from 1998 - 2003. He alternates his teaching at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión in Cuba with travelling extensively to give workshops in other countries, under the auspices of Directing Arts (www.directingarts.com). He is also the author of Working with Actors: Meisner Technique for Directors and Actors.

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