El método

On stage and screen we know a great performance when we see it. But how do actors manage to become art? And how do they manage to give fantasy the appearance of reality? More than a century ago, one of the most talented theater directors of all time, Constantin Stanislavski, asked himself these questions and proposed multiple answers that, since 1930 and for more than half a century, were interpreted and adopted in the United States, a nation that had not yet found its voice as an artistic power. The creators of the Method would train generations of actors. The Method would help some; but it would destroy others. James Dean, Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Paul Newman, Kim Stanley, Dustin Hoffman, Ellen Burstyn, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino... are some of the artists trained in the Method, or against the Method, who They made Hollywood become the global dream factory that it is today. Seamlessly jumping between the characters' points of view as he recounts their lives and times, theater critic and director Isaac Butler explains the biography of the Method as never before, in a narrative that transports readers from Moscow to New York and Los Angeles, from Chekhov's "The Seagull" to Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire," from Marlon Brando's "The Silent Law" to "Raging Bull" and "The Godfather".