Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Clifford Odets, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, et al.

基本信息出版社:Knopf (2012年8月14日)精装:368页正文语种:英语ISBN:0679424431条形码:9780679424437商品重量:739 gASIN:0679424431您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?

商品描述内容简介From one of the most famous and influential acting teachers of her time, of all time--whose generations of students include Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Warren Beatty, Meryl Streep, Jerome Robbins, Annette Bening, Peter Bogdanovich, Sydney Pollack, and Mark Ruffalo--the long-awaited companion volume to her bookOn Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov("Evidence," wrote John Guare, "that Stella Adler is hands down the greatest acting teacher America has produced...Nobody with a serious interest in the theater can afford to be without this book").

In Adler's new book, she considers America's plays and playwrights--the giants of the twentieth century, men she knew, loved, and worked with. Among them: Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, Clifford Odets, William Inge, Arthur Miller, and Edward Albee. She turns her powerful, discerning gaze on O'Neill'sMourning Becomes ElectraandLong Day's Journey into Night;Williams'sThe Glass MenagerieandA Streetcar Named Desire;Odets'sAwake and Sing!andGolden Boy;Inge'sPicnic, Bus Stop,andCome Back, Little Sheba;Miller'sDeath of a SalesmanandAfter the Fall.

Illuminating, revelatory, inspiring; Stella Adler at her electrifying best.作者简介STELLA ADLER began her life on the stage at the age of five in a production that starred her father, the legendary actor of the Yiddish Theatre, Jacob Adler. Stella Adler was one of the co-founders of the revolutionary Group Theatre. In 1934, she met and studied with Konstantin Stanislavski and began to give acting classes for other members of the Group, including Sanford Meisner and Elia Kazan. Adler established the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting in 1949 and taught at Yale University.

BARRY PARIS is the author of biographies of Louise Brooks and Greta Garbo.