The book begins when Kostya and his fellow students are waiting for their first lesson with the Director. Tortsov, the Director, explains all these art forms in great detail, and thereby transforms An Actor Prepares into a type of textbook. The book is autobiographical and deals with many different areas of acting skills, including action, imagination, concentration of attention, relaxation of muscles, units and objectives, faith and a sense of truth, emotion memory, communion, adaptation, inner motive forces, the unbroken line, the inner creative state, the super-objective and the subconscious mind. It has influenced the majority of performances we see on the stage or screen. The system that he describes is a means both of mastering the craft of acting and of stimulating the actor's individual creativeness and imagination. He argues that his system is not a particular method, but a systematic analysis of the 'natural' order of theatrical truth. Stanislavski relates his message with examples. As they go through the class, Tortsov, their teacher and theatre director, addresses the many assumptions they have formed that do not coincide with the 'system'. Kostya and his fellow students have little to no experience in acting. An Actor Prepares is the diary of a fictional student named Kostya during his first year of training in Stanislavski's system.
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