Here then is more word from the master. It is a book for all theatre professionals as well as students. Whether in agreement or disagreement with it you cannot help being stimulated & enriched by it Robert Lewis Founder of the Actors Studio USA In his most famous first book An Actor Prepares Stanislavski dealt with the inner imaginative processes. In the second Building a Character he concentrated on the body the voice & other physical means of expression. In Creating a Role the third book he describes the elaborate preparation that precedes actual performance with substantial analysis given to Othello & Gogols Inspector General. This edition now reprinted with a new cover at a more accessible price has stood the test of time for actors all over the world was the original English language translation & is a classic text for every actors library. Creating a Role is a brilliant little treatise & a careful reading is worth several lessons in almost any English acting academy Charles Marowitz The Observer