Creating a Roleis the culmination of Stanislavski s masterful trilogy on the art of acting. An Actor Preparesfocused on the inner training of an actor s imagination. Building a Characterdetailed how the actor s body and voice could be tuned for the great roles he might fill. This third volume examines the development of a character from the viewpoint of three widely contrasting plays: Griboyedov s Woe from Wit Shakespeare s Othello and Gogol s The Inspector General. Building on the first two books Stanislavski demonstrates how a fully realized character is born in three stages: studying it; establishing the life of the role; putting it into physical form. Tracing the actor s process from the first reading to production he explores how to approach roles from inside and outside simultaneously. He shows how to recount the story in actor s terms how to create an inner life that will give substance to the author s words and how to search into one s own experiences to connect with the character s situation. Finally he speaks of the physical expression of the character in gestures sounds intonation and speech. Throughout a picture of a real artist at work emerges sometimes failing but always seeking truthful answers.