It's our first full episode, and today we're diving headfirst into the ur text for our podcasting project, The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act, written by Isaac Butler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing.

The Method is a thorough investigation of both the correct and incorrect attributions of the teachings of Konstantin Stanislavski as they've been filtered down through his students and acolytes in Russia and later Western Europe and the United States.

And yeah, the introduction is just as compelling read as the rest of the book, so let's start at the beginning!

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Media mentions in this episode:

Blood Simple (dir. Joel & Ethan Coen) – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086979

Nora (dir. Carrie Cracknell) – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2463886/

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You made it! Make yourself comfortable.

Welcome to the show where we go deep into the books we were supposed to have read in acting school. Some you've heard about. Some you've maybe not heard about.

We're here to build a community a\nd have some good long-form discussions about how we do what we do. We'll talk to other actors, directors, teachers, and theatre practitioners about what works great, what works less great, and what we'd like to see in the future.

We're glad you're here. We love you.

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Follow The Actors Bookshelf on Twitter @actorsbookshelf and Bluesky @theactorsbookshelf

Follow Patrick on Instagram @dfwpadraig

Follow Dan on Instagram @the.other.dan.stevens

Questions? Comments? Email us at actorsbookshelfpod@gmail.com