Life in Black and White
, a SCHOLAR contributing editor, is an essayist and the author of three books, most recently and editor of two others. Her essays have been reprinted in and This excerpt comes from her upcoming book, in which she
Acting Out
In 1922, the Franco-British theater visionary Michel Saint-Denis, then 25 years old, asked Constantin Stanislavsky, the founder of the Moscow Art Theatre, how he had made the character Madame Ranyevskaya drop a cup of hot tea so realistically in Act
