Charles Marowitz, The Observer
"Altogether, Creating a Role is a brilliant little treatise, and a careful reading is worth several lessons in almost any English acting academy."

FROM THE PUBLISHER

This volume completes, with An Actor Prepares and Building a Character, the trilogy in which Stanislavski set down his life's accomplishment.

Creating a Role describes the elaborate preparation that precedes actual performance. Stanislavski here

relates the techniques he describes in his preceding books to analyzing specific plays and their roles.

in theatre it is terrific entertainment (Paul Scotfield)