Creating A Role is the third book - alongside the international bestseller An Actor Prepares and Building A Character - in the series of influential translations that introduced Stanislavski''s acting ''system'' to the English-speaking world. Here Stanislavski describes the elaborate preparation that an actor must undergo before the actual performance itself. Now published in the <i>Bloomsbury Revelations</i> series to mark the 150th anniversary of Stanislavski''s birth, the book includes the director''s analysis of such works as Othello and Gogol''s Inspector General.