Gain Theater As Life: Practical Wisdom Drawn From Great Acting Teachers, Actors & Actresses Executed By Paul Marcus Rendered As Print

than focus on the wellknown truism that great plays and dramatic performances can deeply transform and ennoble us, the Marcus's draw from a much less known dimension of theatre, namely, acting technique theory, how actors and actresses learn dramatic performance as an art, profession and way of life.
They claim the emotional, intellectual and physical insights the actor must internalize and ultimately translate into action to become a great actor are "techniques of the self" that can be enormously helpful to the average person struggling with the problem of living a better life, the "good life," as they call it.


Drawing from the psychological insights of Constantin Stanislavski and other such "master" teachers like Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler, Sanford Meisner, as well as performers

like Lawrence Olivier, Marlon Brando and Meryl Streep, Theater as Life is the first book that makes the actor's magical "soul craft", her way of transforming herself into a "character" accessible and applicable to reallife, to living the "good life.
" Academic analysis of a variety of acting theories to show how they are also guides to living the good life, Paul Marcus, Ph. D. , psychoanalyst, is the author/editor of twelve books, most recently In Search of the Good Life, Emmanuel Levinas, Psychoanalysis and the Art of Living, Dr. Marcus completed the five levels of improv training at The Peoples Improv Theater, .