Theater As Life

Psychoanalyst Marcus teams up with his daughter Gabriela, a working actress in New York City, to place lessons from some of the greatest acting teachers into a simplified traditional psychological and psychodynamic framework. They consider such aspects as Lee Strasberg's method of emotion recollected in tranquility, Sanford Meisner and the reality of doing, the quest for self-transcendence, David Mamet's practical aesthetics, and Constantin Stanislavski on loving art in yourself. Annotation 穢2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)