Toward Mastery: An Acting Class with Nikos Psacharopolos / Edition 1

by Jean Hackett, Nikos Psacharopoulos, Gregory Boyd

Overview

In Toward Mastery, Jean Hackett gives us Psacharopoulos' iconoclastic and vibrant take on the world's great playwrights, such as Brecht, Shaw, Williams and Strindberg, as well as comment son scenes from contemporary plays such as "Les Liasons Dangereuses," "A Taste of Honey" and "Look Back in Anger."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781575251660
Publisher:	Smith & Kraus, Inc.
Publication date:	01/01/1999
Series:	Career Development Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.48(h) x 0.52(d)

Editorial Reviews

Those of us who did not learn to hit a baseball from Ted Williams or Charley Lau can console ourselves with the legacy of their instructional mastery on film and in books. Similarly, actors who were not students of Nikos Psacharopoulos, eminent acting teacher and artistic director of the Williamstown Theatre Festival from 1956 until his death in 1989, are indebted to actress and chronicler Hackett for first compiling The Actor's Chekhov (LJ 4/1/93), which explored Psacharopoulos's lifelong work on Chekhov's plays. Her new book is a series of critiques transcribed from audiotapes of classes between 1986 and 1988. Arranged in six sections, each followed by a director's commentary, the text is concerned primarily with the scene work Psacharopoulos emphasized in every class. It provides "a series of acting lessons drawn from critiques of scene work that attempts to give, in overview and specifics, the essential elements that Nikos believed made for great acting." Enthusiastically recommended for advanced theater collections.--Barry X. Miller, Austin P.L., TX

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