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Creating a Role is the concluding title in the trilogy on the art of acting, compiled by Constantin Stanislavski. Summary of the Book This title follows the first two books, An Actor Prepares and Building a Character. It delves into the development of a character from the perspective of three very distinct plays: Shakespeare’s Othello, Griboyedov’s Woe, and Gogol’s The Inspector General, also known as The Government Inspector. The author, in this book, asserts that a fully realised character is born in three phases: studying it, establishing the life of the role, and putting it into physical form. He explains how to narrate the story in actor's terms, how to craft an inner life that will give substance to the author's writing, and how to search one's own experiences to bond with the character's circumstances. In conclusion, he speaks of the physical countenance of the character in gesticulations, intonation, sounds, and speech. About Constantin Stanislavski Constantin Stanislavski was a Russian theatre director and actor, best known for the eponymous Stanislavski’s system, a progression of techniques used to train actors to draw convincing emotions to their performances. His work was significant to the development of socialist realism in the Soviet Union. He wrote many works, including his autobiography, My Life in Art.