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‘Here, Today, Now: Stanislavsky for the 21st Century Actor’: A Practical Presentation

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Bella Merlin’s practical presentation uses Stanislavsky’s Six Fundamental Questions to contextualise a demonstration of ‘practice as research’ riffing off his work, as well as Maria Knebel’s.



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