An Actress Prepares

An Actress Prepares is the first book to interrogate Method acting from a specifically feminist perspective. Rose Malague addresses 'the Method' not only with much-needed critical distance, but also the crucial insider's view of a trained actor. Case studies examine the preeminent American teachers who popularized and transformed elements of Stanislavsky’s System within the U.S.—Strasberg, Adler, Meisner, and Hagen— by analyzing and comparing their related but distinctly different approaches.