Stella Adler - Three Sisters (1)

Stella Adler script analysis class. From a lecture on Act Three of Chekhov's Three Sisters.

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Education

Tags:

• Acting
• Stella
• Adler
• Chekhov

[LittleImpaler]

@greenrate understanding the human condition. And like Uta Hagen once said. "You take the easy road to acting, you'll be crap."

[LittleImpaler]

@greenrate Acting is not all about the emotions. If acting was all about the emotions, acting would be boring. To really play a real to life character, one needs to understand their character, the world and what is really going on. If you don't truly understand the character or the world, you cannot play character. If actors find all this studying and anaynalizing too much work, then acting should not be their job. Acting is not an easy job. Acting is studying and understand...

[LittleImpaler]

@tjrine85 what you want, but why fight for what you want???? When character isn't doing that. Everyday people don't always have battle with themselves or other people.

[LittleImpaler]

@tjrine85 character and not flat character. Even when there is an objective, an actor should never play it. Looking for the want and need ,and the objective makes you lose sight of what is really needs to be seen. And that is by understanding. When you truly understand, your emotions and imagination flows better.  How will you get it, never works, because it not a battlefield on the stage. People don't always fight for what they want. If the script calls for it, then fight what...

[LittleImpaler]

@tjrine85 truly understand the relationships you have with each of the character, when actors don't under their relationships, you fall into telling and not conveying. One should play it moment by moment not chasing after an objective, what do I want. when actor do that it takes you out of the scene. Makes what you do boring. Thought brings emotion, not the other way of around. By truly understanding, not playing the character by your emotions, you'll give a muplit-denominational...

[LittleImpaler]

@tjrine85 Playing the objective and knowing you want, hardly never works in play or script, because 99. of the time the character doesn't know what they want. Instead one should analyze the script, and understand the world the character lives in, what is truly being said, and see the world from their character point of view (by leaving all personal judgments from the actor point-of-view. Such as my character is evil and ect.) People who are evil, don't see themselves as evil. ...

[GeorgeWTush]

No, no. The actress who could play Stella is Elaine Stritch. She has the theatrical size and explosiveness that Stella knew how to deliver. To play Stella, one must be bigger than life. Stritch studied with Stella and eventually taught at her studio. She could do it.

[Filmdude0]

@ActorInPanic Thanks...I think so too :)

[ActorInPanic]

@Filmdude0 Brilliant casting idea.

[Filmdude0]

If a feature would be made about her work there is only one actress to play her.: Angela Lansbury :)