Actor's Notebooks of Innokenty Smoktunovsky
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Actor's Notebooks of Innokenty Smoktunovsky
14.99 €
Innokenty Smoktunovsky did not leave behind any substantial theoretical works that would reflect on his own acting experience and explore his own technique. But the artist's notebooks, filled with Innokenty Smoktunovsky's notes in the margins, provide a unique opportunity to look into the creative "gut". Smoktunovsky's notes have become a kind of "black box" that has preserved data on the process of creating roles. Rehearsals have taken place, performances have already been removed from the repertoire, but the folders with notebooks preserve the spirit and progress of work on the role, preserve the layered structure of the role, which appears integral and monolithic in a live performance.
To see the never-seen work of the "warm-up" of the author's text, to understand the range of associations, internal moves, tasks and goals in a particular scene, the selection and elimination of devices, to see how the author's discoveries are born. To study the interaction of the actor's "I" with the image, to understand the laws and mechanisms of this interaction; to identify the methods and ways of working of an actor who “appropriates” “someone else’s delight, someone else’s sadness”; to see how an image grows out of the “rubbish” of guesses, associations, hints, memories. Finally, to compare the resulting finished stage image with the image that the artist dreamed up for himself. Thanks to Olga Egoshina and her work on collecting and analyzing Smoktunovsky’s actor’s notebooks, this became possible.
With the help of this book, we can touch the theater “kitchen” through the memories and experience of the brilliant artist Innokenty Smoktunovsky, learn how exactly he created the images of Prince Myshkin, Tsar Fyodor, Golovlev, Hamlet.
Leaving aside the actual artistic results of the actor's work, which have been repeatedly described in articles and monographs by theatre scholars studying Innokenty Smoktunovsky, in this book the author would like to focus on the analysis of the actor's technique and reconstruct his working methods.
The book is addressed to both specialists and all those interested in the problems of creativity and the legacy of the great actor.
To see the never-seen work of the "warm-up" of the author's text, to understand the range of associations, internal moves, tasks and goals in a particular scene, the selection and elimination of devices, to see how the author's discoveries are born. To study the interaction of the actor's "I" with the image, to understand the laws and mechanisms of this interaction; to identify the methods and ways of working of an actor who “appropriates” “someone else’s delight, someone else’s sadness”; to see how an image grows out of the “rubbish” of guesses, associations, hints, memories. Finally, to compare the resulting finished stage image with the image that the artist dreamed up for himself. Thanks to Olga Egoshina and her work on collecting and analyzing Smoktunovsky’s actor’s notebooks, this became possible.
With the help of this book, we can touch the theater “kitchen” through the memories and experience of the brilliant artist Innokenty Smoktunovsky, learn how exactly he created the images of Prince Myshkin, Tsar Fyodor, Golovlev, Hamlet.
Leaving aside the actual artistic results of the actor's work, which have been repeatedly described in articles and monographs by theatre scholars studying Innokenty Smoktunovsky, in this book the author would like to focus on the analysis of the actor's technique and reconstruct his working methods.
The book is addressed to both specialists and all those interested in the problems of creativity and the legacy of the great actor.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Theatrical experiments