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Truth: Personas, Needs, and Flaws in the Art of Building Actors and Creating Characters
Truth: Personas, Needs, and Flaws in the Art of Building Actors and Creating Characters
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Author: Susan Batson, Forward by Nicole Kidman Publisher: Rugged Land Format: Hardcover # of Pages: 302 Pub. Date: 2007 ISBN-10: 1590710533 ISBN-13: 9781590710531
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About the Book:
Stanislavski, Strasberg, Meisner, Adler, Berghoff, Hagen, Mamet… now Batson.
Susan Batson is the acting teacher who Nicole Kidman thanked when she won the Best Actress Oscar for The Hours. Tom Cruise did the same when he won a Golden Globe for Magnolia. She has also trained Oscar winners such as Juliette Binoche, Jamie Foxx, and Jennifer Connelly, as well as Chris Rock, Liv Tyler, and director Spike Lee. She's become something of a legendary acting teacher, still plying her trade through her Black Nexxus company in both New York and Los Angeles.
Her classes and private sessions are now distilled into a book form, in the handy, entertaining and practical Truth: Persons, Needs, and Flaws in The Art of Building Actors and Creating Characters. For any A-lister on the rise, this is a way to access private coaching and start practicing Susan Batson's interpretation of the Method.
Debunking a century's worth of myths about method acting, Susan Batson identifies the unifying forces of Need, Public Persona, and Tragic Flaw to unite the actor with his or her character. Need is the primal, unfulfilled desire that a character's Public Persona hides. Tragic Flaw is the confrontational dramatic behavior that erupts when the character's Need and Public Persona clash. Truth shows how actively defining and understanding these three principals lead to the most truthful performances possible.
A must-read for beginning actors, a wake-up call for working actors, and an indispensable reference for writers, Truth reveals the inner game of telling stories and creating vivid, three-dimensional life out of words.
About the Author:
Susan Batson began her lifelong excursion into the art of acting at Adele Thane's Boston Children's Theater. She graduated from Emerson College's Theater Arts Program. A protégée of theater legends Joe Papp and Harold Clurman, Batson is a member of the Actor's Studio, and is a recipient of a New York Drama Critics Award, an LA Drama Critics Award, and an Obie. Her her Black Nexxus acting school has been profiled in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Variety, the Hollywood Reporter, and Backstage. She was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and now makes her home in Manhattan. |
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