Students

In this section of the Experiencing Stanislavsky Todaywebsite, you will find:

• A selection of the textbook’s key worksheets, in PDF format. These can be printed off and filled in whenever you are preparing a role or analysing a play’s plot and themes.
• Useful examples of speech groups and images and actions notes, based on two characters from Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters, to use as guidelines for character-focused script analysis.
• Scene-by-scene event breakdowns for William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Naomi Iizuka’s Polaroid Stories. These give a perfect example of how to plot out the events, characters, settings, props and keywords for any play that you might be tackling.
• An indispensable list of the most important rehearsal steps for approaching a play, from the first reading to final run-through. This checklist gives a clear and methodical guide to using Stanislavsky’s method of physical actions.
• A sample preliminary theme analysis and key events breakdown for Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire that gives a perfect example of how to put together this kind of plan when first starting to work out the world and actions of a play.