How To Stop Acting by Harold Guskin - Need to have read this to answer... Does it work for today?

Question

Is his method and approach to acting better or more useful than the traditional Stanivslaski way that most colleges and universities teach? Please only answer if you've read the book.

Answer 1

I not only have read this book, but recommend it to my students.  Of course it is better than Stanislavski and his disciples, because as Guskin points out they are teaching acting, and todays actors do not act, they react.  Guskin is a natural advance on the ideas of Tony Barr in Acting for the Camera (good for stage as well) and others like Eric Morris who wrote the book, No Acting Please.  Further more, most of the Stanislavski based teaching is based upon misinterpretations of what Stanislavski was doing at the MAT or downright fraud such as Method Acting and The Actor's Studio.