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Are Stanislavski and Brecht Commensurable?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2022
Abstract
“How does Brecht’s system differ from Stanislavski’s?” I have often heard this question asked, sometimes in exactly these words, and probably we shall all live to see the question appear in much this form on college examination papers. I recall, too, that as a young admirer of Brecht’s, nearly twenty years ago, I myself described an actor in one of his plays as having gone “beyond Stanislavski.” Will the acting profession soon be divided between Method actors and Brechtians?
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- Copyright © 1964 The Tulane Drama Review
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1 Martin Esslin, Brecht: The Man and His Work (New York: Doubleday, 1961), pp. 179-80.
2 From Theaterarbeit (Dresden, 1952), p. 413. Translated by John Willett, Brecht on Theatre (New York: Hill and Wang, 1964), pp. 236-37. Reprinted by permission of the publishers.
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