Book, Conversations About the Formation of the actor[LS]

In the seven dialogues that make up Conversations on the Training of the Actor, Jean-Loup Rivière, theater critic and researcher, and Jacques Lassalle, actor, director and researcher, both teachers and concerned with the meaning and scope of theater pedagogy, propose and discuss fundamental problems, the true crux of the matter, about the training of the actor and how to take the potential desire of a young person to dedicate his work, and certainly his life, to the exercise of the art of the stage to full realization as an artist in the eyes not only of the specialized critic or the enraptured audience, but, above all, in the judgment of the passage of time and his achievements, which elevate him to the status of creator of the stage roles that he embodies in his body, that is, of performer-artist of theater. Then, a piece by Jacques Lassalle, which deals with the interaction and relationship between training and acting, makes up the second part of this volume.[JG. and SK]