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Just saw this, it was retweeted by Ian Hallard, originally from David Suchet, here's the small conversation just to put it into perspective.
David_Suchet @David_Suchet
Good opening night at Milton Keynes. Love audience. Good responses to the play. This is v serious theatre only done rarely. Come and see us
Linda Nathaniel @panache36
@David_Suchet Great Expectations v good reviews here in Sydney. Is acting all about reacting?
David_Suchet @David_Suchet
@panache36 A great deal of acting is reacting TRUTHFULLY as the character within the given circumstances laid down by the playwight
Retweeted by Ian Hallard
I really like that description.
I wonder if that's original or inspired by something else?
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“My earliest definition of acting was that you should react as truthfully as possible within the circumstances laid down by the playwright – with the help of the director. That’s it: I want to 'get’ the character. One of the highlights of my career was when Tom Sharpe rang me up after Blott on the Landscape was broadcast and said, 'I’m not going to talk to you for long, but I’ve seen what I’ve written – thank you’ and then he put the phone down. I have carried that with me for years.â€
ahhhh
Still, I wonder if it has earlier origins?
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Ah ha!!
Konstantin Stanislavski
(1863 - 1938)
Like all pioneering thinkers however, Stanislavski stood on the shoulders of giants. Much of the thought and philosophy Stanislavsky applied to the theatre derives from his predecessors. Pushkin, Russia's original literary hero and the father of the native realist tradition, wrote that the goal of the artist is to supply truthful feelings under given circumstances, which Stanislavski adopted as his lifelong artistic motto.
Last edited by kazza474 (March 14, 2012 9:52 am)
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Yes...we studied Stanislavski at school, I took Drama A-level. Very interesting stuff.
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Ah! The Actor's Studio.