Paul Scofield: An Actor For All Seasons; Author: O'Connor, Garry; Hardcover

Author: O'Connor, Garry
Hardcover; Illustrated
Applause Theatre & Cinema Books
ISBN: 1557834997

You can move to Manhattan and join the waiting list for Uta Hagen's legendary classes at the HB Studio, or you can stay where you are and sit in on the full course of her intellect and insight as revealed in three glorious video hours! In the Uta Hagen's Acting Class video set, featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Christine Lahti, and Hal Holbrook among other famous pupils, the revered actress holds forth on her approach to character, text and technique, all the while challenging her students to act and think; act and reflect; act and choose. The videos provide illuminating examples of her teaching points selected from 200 hours of recorded classes over a two year period. Above all the viewer will learn Hagen's fundamental principle: Acting is doing. Or, as she says it, It's in the doing