INTRODUCTION Skinning the Cat Evolution of acting theories and practices currently in use From Russia with Love How Stanislavski''s realism became the American style of acting PART 1: The Game-Changers in Theatre David Garrick (1717-1779) Shakespeare with Psychology Denis Diderot (1713-1784) The Paradox of Acting Adolphe Appia (1862-1928) Myth Dream Archetype Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko (1858-1943) Moscow Arts Theatre Konstantin Stanislavski (1863-1938) The Master Jaques Dalcroze (1865-1950) Eurhythmics Frederick Mathias Alexander (1869-1955) Alexander Technique Gordon Craig (1872-1966) Actors as Übermarionettes Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874-1940) Biomechanics and the Method of Physical Action Maria Ouspenskaya (1876-1933) American Lab Theater Jaques Copeau (1879-1949) Thé'tre de Vieux Colombier Rudolf Laban (1879-1958) Laban Technique Yevgeny Vakhtangov (1883-1922) Creative Individuality Nikolai Demidov (1884-1953) Actor Types Charles Dullin (1885-1949) The Complete Actor Richard Boleslavsky (1880-1937) American Lab Theater Michael Chekhov (1891-1955) Psychological Gesture Irwin Piscator (1893-1966) Objective Acting Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) Theatre of Cruelty Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) Verfremdung Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948) Montage of Attractions Lee Strasberg (1901-1982) The Method Harold Clurman (1901-1980) On Directing Stella Adler (1901-1992) Substitution, Action, and Justification Moshé Feldenkrai (1904-1984) Feldenkrais Method Sanford Meisner (1905-1997) Imaginary Circumstances Viola Spolin (1906-1994) Mother of Modern Improvisation Robert Lewis (1909-1997) Method, or Madness? Joan Littlewood (1914-2002) Theatre''s Radical Lioness Uta Hagen (1919-2004) Respect for Acting Jacques Lecoq 1921-1999 The Pleasure of Play Peter Brook (1925-) The Empty Space Judith Malina (1926-2015) and Julian Beck (1925-1985) The Living Theatre Susana Bloch (?) Alba-Emoting TM The Neighborhood Playhouse (1928- ) The Group Theatre (1931-1940) Augusto Boal (1931-2009) Theatre of the Oppressed Jerzy Grotowski (1933-1999) Poor Theatre Charles Marowitz (1934-2014) The Ur-text Joseph Chaikin (1935-2003) Open Theatre Eugenio Barba (1936- ) Theatre Anthropology Tadashi Susuki (1939- ) and Anne Bogart (1951- ) Viewpoints The Actors Studio (1947- ) David Mamet (1947- ) Practical Aesthetics Robert Lepage (1957-) Alchemist of Imagistic Theatre Simon McBurney (1957- ) Thé'tre de Complicité Part 2: Flowering of Dramatic Realism in Cinema Neo-Realism (Italy from 1943) Kitchen Sink Drama (England from 1956) Satyajit Ray (1921-1992) Writing as an integral part of directing John Cassavetes (1929-1989) Personality is Plot Sydney Pollack (1934-2008) Film as a collective experience Sidney Lumet (1924-2011) Hard-boiled straight-shooting Ken Loach (1936-) Intersection of the personal with the political John Sayles (1950-) Humanity and nuanced observation Neo-Neo-Realism The current renaissance of Realism and Naturalism in low-budget movies Index.