Curtain down on Act One of The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act, and we go out on a bang! Thus concludes our background discussions on the history of the revolutionary approach to acting that would go on to influence the American "Method" and the new approach to psychological realism that would take the world by storm once a certain Polish Lancer made his way behind enemy lines to spread the good word abroad.

Check out our back catalogue of discussions on The Method for information that is going to provide atmosphere and context for the books on acting we'll be reading going forward, by such luminaries as Richard Boleslavski, Michael Chekhov, Vasily Toporkov, and even Stan the Man himself....

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