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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Introduction
Translator’s foreword
Publisher’s acknowledgements
An Actor’s Work, original draft preface [extracts]
YEAR ONE: EXPERIENCING
An Actor’s Work, introduction
1. Amateurism
2. The stage as art and stock-in-trade
3. Action, ‘if’, ‘Given Circumstances’
4. Imagination
5. Concentration and attention
6. Muscular release
7. Bits and Tasks
8. Belief and the sense of truth
9. Emotion Memory
10. Communication
11. An actor’s adaptations and other elements, qualities, aptitudes and gifts
12. Inner psychological drives
13. Inner psychological drives in action
14. The actor’s inner creative state
15. The Supertask, Throughaction
16. The subconscious and the actor’s creative state
YEAR TWO: EMBODIMENT
17. Transition to physical embodiment
18. Physical education
19. Voice and speech
20. Perspective of the actor and the role
21. Tempo-rhythm
22. Logic and sequence
23. Physical characteristics
24. The finishing touches
25. Charisma
26. Ethics and discipline
27. The external creative state in performance
28. General creative state in performance
29. The ‘system’
APPENDICES
Endnotes
Glossary of key terms
Afterword by Anatoly Smeliansky
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