This week on TAB, Dan and Patrick are learning about the difference between what they do (hack work) and what our boy Stan the Man was trying to implement with his first workshop of actors back in Moscow with the System.

We're more than halfway through the first act of The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act by Isaac Butler. We promise, dear listener, those books we were supposed to have read in acting school are coming. But first, we must get down with THE STANISLAVSKI SICKNESS (cue Disturbed throat noises).

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Media mentions in this episode:

Odessa Steps Sequence from "Battleship Potemkin" (dir. Sergei Eisenstein) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBqAGdqTNz0

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We're trying new episode titles. This is Part 2 of Chapter 4 of The Method, aka Patrick wraps up his book report....

We got off the chapter numbering anyway.

Our last episode ended with the Ya Yes'm lesson (я есмь), this week we'll revisit that, and we'll cover how Stan got around to some of his profound acting theories, including Concentration, Affective Memory (oy...), the Magic If, and the big M word.

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Well horsefeathers.....

Turns out a lot happened in Russia after the turn of the Twentieth Century, and our heroes Stan and Nemo were caught in the maelstrom. This week Dan and Patrick are talking about Chapter 4 of Isaac Butler's The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act. But it's a dense chapter, lots of scene-setting to set about, so we dive on in headfirst to the development of Mister Stan's theories about the CONSCIOUS and the SUPERCONSCIOUS.

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