A key text for drama students today. These dramatic dialogues between the teacher and 'The Creature' - an idealistic student - explore the 'craft' of acting according to one of the godfathers of method acting. Now with a new introduction and bibliography.

Acting: The First Six Lessons, Richard Boleslavsky; Part 1 The First Lesson; Part 2 The Second Lesson; Part 3 The Third Lesson; Part 4 The Fourth Lesson; Part 5 The Fifth Lesson; Part 6 The Sixth Lesson; Part 7 The "Creative Theatre" Lectures; Part 8 What is the Theatre?; Part 9 What is a Play?; Part 10 What is the Audience?; Part 11 What is an Actor?; Part 12 What is a Theatrical Designer?; Part 13 What is a Theatrical Composer?; Part 14 What is a Collective Work in a Theatre?; Part 15 What is a Theatrical Performance?; Part 16 What is a Mechanical Performance?; Part 17 What is a Creative Theatrical Performance?; Part 18 The Qualifications of a Creative Actor; Part 19 What is the Meaning of "Living the Part ?"; Part 20 What is "Spiritual Concentration?"; Part 21 What is the Spiritual or Affective Memory?; Part 22 How to Use the Affective Memory in Preparing a Part; Part 23 Boleslavsky Lectures from theAmerican Laboratory Theatre; Part 24 Lecture 3; Part 25 Lecture 5; Part 26 Lesson 6; Part 27 Lecture 7; Part 28 Lesson 8; Part 29 Lesson 9; Part 30 Lecture 10; Part 31 Lecture 11; Part 32 Notes on Acting with Maria Ouspenskaya; Part 33 October 1954; Part 34 November 1954; Part 35 December 1954; Part 36 January 1955;