The most informal
- & in some ways the most delightful
- of all Stanislavski books"
- Sir Michael Redgrave No one has had a greater influence on acting as we know it than Stanislavski. His "method"
- or interpretations of it
- has become the central force determining almost every performance we see on stage or screen. Stanislavskis Legacy is a companion volume to his three great teaching books An Actor Prepares Building a Character & Creating a Role. It is a carefully arranged selection of the articles speeches notes & memoirs written between 1898 when the Moscow Art Theatre opened & his death in 1938. Among the items are a series of brilliant letters on the interpretation of Othello the long & affectionate article " Memories of Chekhov" & a final section in which Stanislavski envisages the theatre & the actors of the future." The legacy which Stanislavski & his collaborators have left us is in all truth magnificent; & its benefits are available not only to the actor & actress but to everyone who aspires to become a rounded human being"
- Observer"