![]() As Paco (Paco León) and Maria ( Ana Katz) are a couple looking for reactive passion of their sexual relations. In other words, the couples revolving around their complex relations, trying to find the road to happiness and determined to part with the social or self-imposed restrictions, even if this means they will have to deal with unheard, rather unusual, and above all, hard to pronounce philias. Under Madrid's scorching summer sun, ordinary marriages and other kinds of couples enjoy real passion and the unquenchable desire to love and be loved, and explore their very surprising relations along various stories full of twisted sex and romances. The result is a major contribution to the theatre, and a service to one of the great innovators of the twentieth century.This curiously sensual comedy by Paco León is a humorous take on some moderately hilarious views on modern-day sex and it gives more profanity and bad taste into the lives of people who could easily be our neighbours. At last, Jean Benedetti has succeeded in translating Stanislavski’s huge manual into a lively, fascinating and accurate text in English. He has remained faithful to the author's original intentions, putting the two books previously known as An Actor Prepares and Building A Character back together into one volume, and in a colloquial and readable style for today's actors. Some of the mistranslations have resulted in profound distortions in the way his system has been interpreted and taught. ![]() ![]() Until now, readers and students have had to contend with inaccurate, misleading and difficult-to-read English-language versions. His systematic attempt to outline a psycho-physical technique for acting single-handedly revolutionized standards of acting in the theatre. ![]() ![]() Stanislavski’s ‘system’ has dominated actor-training in the West since his writings were first translated into English in the 1920s and 30s. ![]()
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