Acting the Essence: The Performer’s Work on the Self

* This book expands on content, history and perspectives of the Stanislavski actor lineage.
* This book analyzes history, lineage and contemporary experiential aspects of performance, focusing on its peculiar research that deals with truth, trance and attention.
* This book fill existing gaps in contemporary studies, particularly in English, related to the theory, practice, history and aims of a conscient use of altered states of consciousness as a work on the self in acting and performance.