Acting and Play Production: A Manual for Classes, Dramatic Clubs, and Little Theatres (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Acting and Play Production: A Manual for Classes, Dramatic Clubs, and Little Theatres

Producing plays is an art, as those who have tried it will testify. It is therefore no doubt a kind of impertinence to write a manual on the subject at all, as the arts are notoriously unteachable. Nor is it main tained that the mere following of this pro posed course in dramatics will produce a renaissance in acting. What is hoped is that it may give some valuable suggestions for avoiding error, plot out a path that is not too thorny, and help the actor and di rector perhaps even by its very imperti mence to rise On the stepping - stone of its dead body to a realization of that higher genius that is creatively at work in them. For genius, like the winds of inspiration.

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