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'''<!---His name is spelt with a K in standard English translation (as per ''An Actor's Work,'' ''An Actor's Work on a Role,'' and ''My Life in Art'') from the Russian Константин - see talk page--->Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavski''' ({{ |
'''<!---His name is spelt with a K in standard English translation (as per ''An Actor's Work,'' ''An Actor's Work on a Role,'' and ''My Life in Art'') from the Russian Константин - see talk page--->Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavski''' ({{langx|ru|Константин Серге́евич Станиславский}}) ({{OldStyleDate|17 January|1863|5 January}} – 7 August 1938), was a [[Russia]]n [[actor]] and [[theatre director]].<ref name=dates/><ref>The introduction to this article draws on the introductions and overviews in the following commentaries: Banham (1998), Benedetti (1989), Carnicke (1998), Counsell (1996), Innes (2000), and Milling and Ley (2001).</ref> He was widely recognised as an outstanding [[character actor]] and the many [[User:DoctorMabuse/Sandbox15|productions that he directed]] garnered a reputation as one of the leading directors of his generation.<ref name=ACCOLADE>Benedetti (1999b, 254), Carnicke (2000, 12), Leach (2004, 14), and Milling and Ley (2001, 1).</ref> His principal fame and influence, however, rests on [[Stanislavski's 'system'|his 'system']] of actor training, preparation, and rehearsal technique.<ref name=SYSTEM>Carnicke (2000, 16), Golub (1998, 1032), and Milling and Ley (2001, 1). Stanislavski began developing a 'grammar' of acting in 1906; his initial choice to call it his System struck him as too dogmatic, so he wrote it as his 'system' (without the capital letter and in inverted commas) to indicate the provisional nature of the results of his investigations—modern scholarship follows that practice; see Benedetti (1999a, 169), Gauss (1999, 3-4), and Milling and Ley (2001, 1).</ref> His development of a theorised [[praxis (process)|praxis]]—in which practice is used as a mode of inquiry and theory as a catalyst for creative development—identifies him as the first great [[theatre practitioner]].<ref>Benedetti (1989, 1), Counsell (1996, 25), and Gordon (2006, 39). Stanislavski's 'system' is, Benedetti argues, "his practice examined, tested and verified."</ref> |
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Theatre-making is a serious endeavour that requires dedication, discipline and integrity, Stanislavski thought, and he viewed the work of the actor as an artistic undertaking.<ref>Benedetti (1989, 1), Carnicke (1998, 162), and Magarshack (1950, 376). Magarshack writes that Stanislavski considered "the pre-eminent position of the art of the actor" to be "the fundamental principle of the art of the stage."</ref> He treated the [[theatre]] as an [[The arts|art-form]] that is [[Medium specificity|autonomous]] from [[literature]] and one in which the [[playwright]]'s contribution should be respected as that of only one of an ensemble of creative artists.<ref>Benedetti (1999a, 124, 202) and (2008b, 6), Carnicke (1998, 162), and Gauss (1999, 2). In 1902, Stanislavski wrote that "the author writes on paper. The actor writes with his body on the stage" and that the "score of an opera is not the opera itself and the script of a play is not drama until both are made flesh and blood on stage"; quoted by Benedetti (1999a, 124).</ref> Following a legendary 18-hour discussion with [[Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko]], in 1898 Stanislavski and Nemirovich founded the world-famous [[Moscow Art Theatre]] (MAT) company. Its influential tours of Europe (1906) and the US (1923-4) and its landmark productions of [[ |
Theatre-making is a serious endeavour that requires dedication, discipline and integrity, Stanislavski thought, and he viewed the work of the actor as an artistic undertaking.<ref>Benedetti (1989, 1), Carnicke (1998, 162), and Magarshack (1950, 376). Magarshack writes that Stanislavski considered "the pre-eminent position of the art of the actor" to be "the fundamental principle of the art of the stage."</ref> He treated the [[theatre]] as an [[The arts|art-form]] that is [[Medium specificity|autonomous]] from [[literature]] and one in which the [[playwright]]'s contribution should be respected as that of only one of an ensemble of creative artists.<ref>Benedetti (1999a, 124, 202) and (2008b, 6), Carnicke (1998, 162), and Gauss (1999, 2). In 1902, Stanislavski wrote that "the author writes on paper. The actor writes with his body on the stage" and that the "score of an opera is not the opera itself and the script of a play is not drama until both are made flesh and blood on stage"; quoted by Benedetti (1999a, 124).</ref> Following a legendary 18-hour discussion with [[Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko]], in 1898 Stanislavski and Nemirovich founded the world-famous [[Moscow Art Theatre]] (MAT) company.<ref name=MAT>Benedetti (1999a, 59), Braun (1982, 59), Carnicke (2000, 11-12), and Worrall (1996, 43).</ref> Its influential tours of Europe (1906) and the US (1923-4) and its landmark productions of [[Moscow Art Theatre production of The Seagull|''The Seagull'' (1898)]] and [[Moscow Art Theatre production of Hamlet|''Hamlet'' (1911-12)]] established his reputation and opened new possibilities for the art of the theatre.<ref name=TOURS>Benedetti (1999a, 165), Carnicke (2000, 12), Gauss (1999, 1), Gordon (2006, 42), and Milling and Ley (2001, 13-14).</ref> Stanislavski's approach to theatre-making responded to a wide range of influences and ideas, including his study of the [[Modernism|modernist]] and [[Russian avant-garde|avant-garde]] developments of his time ([[Naturalism (theatre)|naturalism]], [[Symbolist theatre|symbolism]] and [[Vsevolod Meyerhold|Meyerhold]]'s [[constructivism (art)|constructivism]]), [[Russian formalism]], [[Yoga]], [[Ivan Pavlov|Pavlovian]] [[Behaviorism|behaviourist psychology]], [[James-Lange theory|James-Lange]] (via [[Théodule-Armand Ribot|Ribot]]) [[psychophysiology]], and the aesthetics of [[Vissarion Belinsky|Belinsky]] and the [[Realism (theatre)|realists]] [[Alexander Pushkin|Pushkin]], [[Mikhail Shchepkin|Shchepkin]], [[Nikolai Gogol|Gogol]], and [[Leo Tolstoy|Tolstoy]].<ref>Neither the Soviet nor the American approaches "found Stanislavsky's study of avant-garde and Eastern arts of more than passing interest," Carnicke explains; her own study is one of a number that seek to redress that (1998); see also Milling and Ley (2001). For the relationship to [[Russian formalism]], see Carnicke (1998, 161-162). For the influence of [[Yoga]], see Carnicke (1998, 138-145), Leach (2004, 30-31), Magarshack (1950, 322), and White (2006). For the influence of [[Ivan Pavlov]] and [[Behaviorism]], see Roach (1985). For the influence of [[Théodule-Armand Ribot]] and the [[James-Lange theory]], see Benedetti (1999a, 184-185), Bentley (1962, 275-278), Carnicke (1998, 131-138) and Whyman (2008, 117-122). For the influence of [[Leo Tolstoy]], see Benedetti (2005, 120) and Carnicke (1998, 110-112); Rudnitsky argues that the "universal recognition of Stanislavski's and Nemirovich-Danchenko's masterpieces of direction has been conditioned to a great degree by the organic connection between their work and the traditions of nineteenth-century Russian prose, which has enriched the cultural and spiritual heritage of mankind" (1981, 141). For the influence of [[Vissarion Belinsky]], see Benedetti (1999a, 35-37). For the influence of [[Alexander Pushkin]], [[Mikhail Shchepkin]], and [[Nikolai Gogol]], see Benedetti (1989, 5-11), (1999a, 14-17) and (205, 100-109).</ref> |
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| ⚫ | Stanislavski's innovative contribution to modern acting theory has remained at the core of mainstream [[Western culture|western]] performance training for much of the last century.<ref>Banham (1998, 1032), Carnicke (1998, 1), Counsell (1996, 24-25), Gordon (2006, 37-40), and Leach (2004, 29).</ref> That many of the precepts of his 'system' seem to be common sense and self-evident testifies to its hegemonic success.<ref name="Counsell 1996, 25">Counsell (1996, 25).</ref> Actors frequently employ his basic concepts without knowing they do so.<ref name="Counsell 1996, 25"/> Thanks to its promotion and elaboration by acting teachers who were former students and the many translations of his theoretical writings, Stanislavski's 'system' acquired an unprecedented ability to cross cultural boundaries and developed an international reach, dominating debates about acting in Europe and America.<ref>Banham (1998, 1032), Carnicke (1998, 1, 167), Counsell (1996, 24), and Milling and Ley (2001, 1).</ref> His work was as important to the development of [[socialist realism]] in the [[Soviet Union]] as it was to that of [[Realism (theatre)|psychological realism]] in the [[Theater of the United States|United States]].<ref>Milling and Ley (2001, 2) and Carnicke (1998).</ref> Many actors routinely equate his 'system' with the American [[Method acting|Method]], although the latter's exclusively psychological techniques contrast sharply with Stanislavski's multivariant, holistic and [[Psychophysiology|psychophysical]] approach, which explores character and action both from the 'inside out' and the 'outside in' and treats the actor's mind and body as parts of a continuum.<ref>Benedetti (2005, 147-148) and Carnicke (1998, 1, 8). Not only actors are subject to this confusion; [[Lee Strasberg]]'s [[obituary]] in ''[[The New York Times]]'' credited Stanislavski with the invention of [[Method acting|the Method]]: "Mr. Strasberg adapted it to the American theatre, imposing his refinements, but always crediting Stanislavsky as his source" (Quoted by Carnicke 1998, 9). Carnicke argues that this "robs Strasberg of the originality in his thinking, while simultaneously obscuring Stanislavsky's ideas" (1997, 9). In a note from 1913 Stanislavski wrote that a character "is sometimes formed psychologically, i.e. from the inner image of the role, but at other times it is discovered through purely external exploration"; quoted by Benedetti (1999a, 216). Neither the tradition that formed in the USSR nor the American Method, Carnicke argues, "integrated the mind and body of the actor, the corporal and the spiritual, the text and the performance as thoroughly or as insistently as did Stanislavsky himself" (1998, 2). For evidence of Strasberg's misunderstanding of this aspect of Stanislavski's work, see Strasberg (2010, 150-151).</ref> |
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Throughout his life, Stanislavski subjected his acting and direction to a process of rigorous artistic self-analysis and reflection.<ref>Benedetti (1989, 1) and (2005, 109), and Milling and Ley (2001, 3-5).</ref> His [[Stanislavski's 'system'|'system']] of acting developed out of his persistent efforts to remove the blocks that he encountered in his performances, beginning with a major crisis in 1906.<ref>Benedetti (1989, 1). Stanislavski began developing a 'grammar' of acting in 1906; his initial choice to call it his System struck him as too dogmatic, so he preferred to write it as his 'system' (without the capital letter and in inverted commas), in order to indicate the provisional nature of the results of his investigations. Modern scholarship follows that practice. See Benedetti (1999a, 169), Gauss (1999, 3-4), and Milling and Ley (2001, 1). '''need citation for relation to blocks and crisis'''</ref> Building on the director-centred, [[Gesamtkunstwerk|unified aesthetic]] and disciplined, [[Ensemble cast|ensemble]] approach of the [[Meiningen Ensemble|Meiningen company]], the actor-centred [[Realism (theatre)|realism]] of the [[Maly Theatre (Moscow)|Maly]], and the [[Naturalism (theatre)|naturalistic]] staging of [[André Antoine (actor)|Antoine]] and the independent theatre movement, Stanislavski organised his techniques into a coherent, [[system]]atic methodology.<ref>Benedetti (1989, 5-11, 15, 18), Counsell (1996, 24), and Innes (2000, 53-54).</ref> He pioneered the use of [[User:DoctorMabuse/Sandbox7|theatre studio]]s as a laboratory in which to innovate [[actor training]] and to [[Experimental theatre|experiment with new forms of theatre]].<ref>Gauss (1999, 3) and Milling and Ley (2001, 6).</ref> His development of a theorised [[praxis (process)|praxis]]—in which practice is used as a mode of inquiry and theory as a catalyst for creative development—identifies him as the first great [[theatre practitioner]].<ref>Benedetti (1989, 1), Counsell (1996, 25), and Gordon (2006, 39). Stanislavski's 'system' is, Benedetti argues, "his practice examined, tested and verified."</ref> |
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| ⚫ | Stanislavski's innovative contribution to modern acting theory has remained at the core of mainstream [[Western culture|western]] performance training for much of the last century.<ref>Banham (1998, 1032), Carnicke (1998, 1), Counsell (1996, 24-25), Gordon (2006, 37-40), and Leach (2004, 29).</ref> That many of the precepts of his 'system' seem to be common sense and self-evident testifies to its hegemonic success.<ref>Counsell (1996, 25).</ref> Actors frequently employ his basic concepts without knowing they do so.<ref |
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==Biography== |
==Biography== |
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The [[User:DoctorMabuse/Sandbox24|biography of Konstantin Stanislavski]] straddles two centuries, a world war, and political and artistic revolutions.<ref>Carnicke (2000, 11).</ref> During his life, he was awarded the [[Order of the Red Banner]] and the [[Order of Lenin]] and was one of the first to be granted the title of [[People's Artist of the USSR]].<ref>Carnicke (1998, 33), Golub (1998, 1033), and Magarshack (1950, 385, 396).</ref> He was widely recognised as an outstanding [[character actor]] and the many [[User:DoctorMabuse/Sandbox15|productions that he directed]] garnered a reputation as one of the leading [[Theatre director|directors]] of his generation.<ref name=ACCOLADE/> His principal fame and influence, however, rests on [[Stanislavski's 'system'|his 'system']] of actor training, preparation, and rehearsal technique.<ref name=SYSTEM/> |
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Stanislavski (his [[stage name]]) performed and directed as an [[Amateur theatre|amateur]] until the age of 33, when he co-founded the world-famous [[Moscow Art Theatre]] (MAT) company with [[Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko]], following a legendary 18-hour discussion.<ref name=MAT/> Its influential tours of Europe (1906) and the US (1923-4) and its landmark productions of [[Moscow Art Theatre production of The Seagull|''The Seagull'' (1898)]] and [[Moscow Art Theatre production of Hamlet|''Hamlet'' (1911-12)]] established his reputation and opened new possibilities for the art of the theatre.<ref name=TOURS/> By means of the MAT, Stanislavski was instrumental in promoting the new Russian drama of his day—principally the work of [[Anton Chekhov]], [[Maxim Gorky]], and [[Mikhail Bulgakov]]—to audiences in Moscow and around the world; he also staged acclaimed productions of a wide range of classical Russian and European plays.<ref>Carnicke (2000, 12-16, 29-33) and Gordon (2006, 42).</ref> He collaborated with the director and designer [[Edward Gordon Craig]] and was formative in the development of several other major practitioners, including [[Vsevolod Meyerhold]] (whom Stanislavski considered his "sole heir in the theatre"), [[Yevgeny Vakhtangov]], and [[Michael Chekhov]].<ref>Bablet (1962, 133-158), Benedetti (1999a, 156, 188-211, 368-373), Braun (1995, 27-29), Roach (1985, 215-216), Rudnitsky (1981, 56), and Taxidou (1998, 66-69).</ref> At the MAT's 30-year anniversary celebrations in 1928, a massive heart attack on-stage put an end to his acting career (though he waited until the curtain fell before seeking medical assistance).<ref>Benedetti (1999a, 317) and Magarshack (1950, 378).</ref> He continued to direct, teach, and write about acting until his death a few weeks before the publication of the first volume of his life's great work, the acting manual ''[[An Actor's Work]]'' (1938).<ref>Benedetti (1999a, 374-375) and Magarshack (1950, 404).</ref> |
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==The 'system'== |
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Throughout the writing process he worked closely with [[Liubov Gurevich|Gurevich]], who served as his editor.<ref>Benedetti (1999a, 319-346), Magarshack (1950, 380-381), and Milling and Ley (2001, 4).</ref> On 22 April 1930, Stanislavski signed a contract with [[Elizabeth Hapgood]], who had been working on an English translation, that granted her power to negotiate contracts for the publication of his books on the 'system' in all languages.<ref>Benedetti (1999a, 331) and Carnicke (1998, 75). As a Soviet citizen, Stanislavski was unable to establish US copyright himself. In 1929, Stanislavski stayed at the spa in [[Badenweiler]] where he was joined by [[Elizabeth Hapgood]], and together they discussed the project. Hapgood began to translate the material later when they were in [[Nice]]. Elizabeth's husband, Norman, edited the translated material; see Benedetti (1999a, 322-324). On 3 November 1930, Stanislavski returned to Moscow; see Benedetti (1999a, 332).</ref> The first volume was largely complete by August 1930.<ref>Benedetti (1999a, 332) and Carnicke (1998, 73); Carnicke gives the date for a complete manuscript as November. In August Stanislavski read the draft to [[Leonid Leonidov]] in [[Badenweiler]]; Leonidov response was to declare "This is not 'system', it is a complete culture."</ref> Unimpressed with the draft, Gurevich encouraged him to include more of the material he had already written, especially that which explained "bits and tasks"; she also suggested including the three-fold distinction between the "[[User:DoctorMabuse/Sandbox21|art of experiencing]]," the "[[art of representation]]," and the "stock-in-trade" approaches to acting from a draft called ''Various Trends in the Theatre''.<ref>Benedetti (1999a, 333).</ref> Stanislavski confirmed that he now thought in terms of two distinct versions, an American and a Soviet edition.<ref>Benedetti (1999a, 334-335). "I am only thinking of America, a completely [[Bourgeoisie|bourgeois]] country" Stanislavski wrote in response to [[Liubov Gurevich|Gurevich]]'s repeated concerns about the suitability of many of his examples to contemporary Soviet experience, adding that in the Soviet edition "''all'' the examples, ''all'' the characters will have to be changed"; quoted by Benedetti (1999a, 334). [[Liubov Gurevich|Gurevich]] encouraged Stanislavski to adapt his examples (such as the loss of an expensive broach or counting large bundles of banknotes) to the realities of Soviet life; see Benedetti (1999a, 321-322) and Carnicke (1998, 80-81).</ref> He elaborated a plan in which the Russian ''An Actor's Work on Himself'' would be the first in a sequence of eight books (that would include ''[[My Life in Art]]'') covering all aspects of theatre-making.<ref>Benedetti (1999a, 335).</ref> |
Throughout the writing process he worked closely with [[Liubov Gurevich|Gurevich]], who served as his editor.<ref>Benedetti (1999a, 319-346), Magarshack (1950, 380-381), and Milling and Ley (2001, 4).</ref> On 22 April 1930, Stanislavski signed a contract with [[Elizabeth Hapgood]], who had been working on an English translation, that granted her power to negotiate contracts for the publication of his books on the 'system' in all languages.<ref>Benedetti (1999a, 331) and Carnicke (1998, 75). As a Soviet citizen, Stanislavski was unable to establish US copyright himself. In 1929, Stanislavski stayed at the spa in [[Badenweiler]] where he was joined by [[Elizabeth Hapgood]], and together they discussed the project. Hapgood began to translate the material later when they were in [[Nice]]. Elizabeth's husband, Norman, edited the translated material; see Benedetti (1999a, 322-324). On 3 November 1930, Stanislavski returned to Moscow; see Benedetti (1999a, 332).</ref> The first volume was largely complete by August 1930.<ref>Benedetti (1999a, 332) and Carnicke (1998, 73); Carnicke gives the date for a complete manuscript as November. In August Stanislavski read the draft to [[Leonid Leonidov]] in [[Badenweiler]]; Leonidov response was to declare "This is not 'system', it is a complete culture."</ref> Unimpressed with the draft, Gurevich encouraged him to include more of the material he had already written, especially that which explained "bits and tasks"; she also suggested including the three-fold distinction between the "[[User:DoctorMabuse/Sandbox21|art of experiencing]]," the "[[art of representation]]," and the "stock-in-trade" approaches to acting from a draft called ''Various Trends in the Theatre''.<ref>Benedetti (1999a, 333).</ref> Stanislavski confirmed that he now thought in terms of two distinct versions, an American and a Soviet edition.<ref>Benedetti (1999a, 334-335). "I am only thinking of America, a completely [[Bourgeoisie|bourgeois]] country" Stanislavski wrote in response to [[Liubov Gurevich|Gurevich]]'s repeated concerns about the suitability of many of his examples to contemporary Soviet experience, adding that in the Soviet edition "''all'' the examples, ''all'' the characters will have to be changed"; quoted by Benedetti (1999a, 334). [[Liubov Gurevich|Gurevich]] encouraged Stanislavski to adapt his examples (such as the loss of an expensive broach or counting large bundles of banknotes) to the realities of Soviet life; see Benedetti (1999a, 321-322) and Carnicke (1998, 80-81).</ref> He elaborated a plan in which the Russian ''An Actor's Work on Himself'' would be the first in a sequence of eight books (that would include ''[[My Life in Art]]'') covering all aspects of theatre-making.<ref>Benedetti (1999a, 335).</ref> |
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==Legacy== |
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Many of Stanislavski's former students taught acting in the USA, including [[Ryszard Bolesławski|Richard Boleslavsky]], [[Maria Ouspenskaya]], [[Michael Chekhov]], [[Andrius Jilinsky]], [[Leo Bulgakov]], [[Varvara Bulgakov]], [[Vera Solovyova]], and [[Tamara Daykarhanova]].<ref name=c3>Carnicke (1998, 3).</ref> Others—including [[Stella Adler]] and [[Joshua Logan]]—"grounded careers in brief periods of study" with Stanislavski.<ref name=c3/> Boleslavsky and Ouspenskaya founded the influential [[American Laboratory Theatre]] in 1923. |
Many of Stanislavski's former students taught acting in the USA, including [[Ryszard Bolesławski|Richard Boleslavsky]], [[Maria Ouspenskaya]], [[Michael Chekhov]], [[Andrius Jilinsky]], [[Leo Bulgakov]], [[Varvara Bulgakov]], [[Vera Solovyova]], and [[Tamara Daykarhanova]].<ref name=c3>Carnicke (1998, 3).</ref> Others—including [[Stella Adler]] and [[Joshua Logan]]—"grounded careers in brief periods of study" with Stanislavski.<ref name=c3/> Boleslavsky and Ouspenskaya founded the influential [[American Laboratory Theatre]] in 1923. |
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[[Richard Boleslavsky|Boleslavsky]] and [[Maria Ouspenskaya|Ouspenskaya]] went on to found the influential [[American Laboratory Theatre]] (1923-1933) in [[New York City|New York]], which they modeled on the [[User:DoctorMabuse/Sandbox8|First Studio]]. Boleslavsky's manual ''[[Acting: The First Six Lessons]]'' (1933) played a significant role in the transmission of Stanislavski's ideas and practices to the [[Theater of the United States|United States]]. |
[[Richard Boleslavsky|Boleslavsky]] and [[Maria Ouspenskaya|Ouspenskaya]] went on to found the influential [[American Laboratory Theatre]] (1923-1933) in [[New York City|New York]], which they modeled on the [[User:DoctorMabuse/Sandbox8|First Studio]]. Boleslavsky's manual ''[[Acting: The First Six Lessons]]'' (1933) played a significant role in the transmission of Stanislavski's ideas and practices to the [[Theater of the United States|United States]]. |
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* [[Konstantin Stanislavski|Stanislavski, Konstantin]]. 1936. ''[[An Actor Prepares]]''. London: Methuen, 1988. ISBN |
* [[Konstantin Stanislavski|Stanislavski, Konstantin]]. 1936. ''[[An Actor Prepares]]''. London: Methuen, 1988. {{ISBN|0413461904}}. |
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* ---. 1938. ''[[An Actor's Work|An Actor’s Work: A Student’s Diary]]''. Trans. and ed. Jean Benedetti. London and New York: Routledge, 2008. ISBN |
* ---. 1938. ''[[An Actor's Work|An Actor’s Work: A Student’s Diary]]''. Trans. and ed. Jean Benedetti. London and New York: Routledge, 2008. {{ISBN|041542223X}}. |
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* ---. 1950. ''Stanislavsky on the Art of the Stage''. Trans. David Magarshack. London: Faber, 2002. ISBN |
* ---. 1950. ''Stanislavsky on the Art of the Stage''. Trans. David Magarshack. London: Faber, 2002. {{ISBN|057108172X}}. |
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* ---. 1957. ''[[An Actor's Work|An Actor's Work on a Role]]''. Trans. and ed. Jean Benedetti. London and New York: Routledge, 2010. ISBN |
* ---. 1957. ''[[An Actor's Work|An Actor's Work on a Role]]''. Trans. and ed. Jean Benedetti. London and New York: Routledge, 2010. {{ISBN|0415461294}}. |
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* ---. 1961. ''Creating a Role.'' Trans. Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood. London: Mentor, 1968. ISBN |
* ---. 1961. ''Creating a Role.'' Trans. Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood. London: Mentor, 1968. {{ISBN|0450001660}}. |
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* ---. 1963. ''An Actor's Handbook: An Alphabetical Arrangement of Concise Statements on Aspects of Acting.'' Ed. and trans. Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood. London: Methuen, 1990. ISBN |
* ---. 1963. ''An Actor's Handbook: An Alphabetical Arrangement of Concise Statements on Aspects of Acting.'' Ed. and trans. Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood. London: Methuen, 1990. {{ISBN|0413630803}}. |
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* ---. 1968. ''Stanislavski's Legacy: A Collection of Comments on a Variety of Aspects of an Actor's Art and Life.'' Ed. and trans. Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood. Revised and expanded edition. London: Methuen, 1981. ISBN |
* ---. 1968. ''Stanislavski's Legacy: A Collection of Comments on a Variety of Aspects of an Actor's Art and Life.'' Ed. and trans. Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood. Revised and expanded edition. London: Methuen, 1981. {{ISBN|0413477703}}. |
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* Stanislavski, Constantin, and Pavel Rumyantsev. 1975. ''Stanislavski on Opera.'' Trans. Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood. London: Routledge, 1998. ISBN |
* Stanislavski, Constantin, and Pavel Rumyantsev. 1975. ''Stanislavski on Opera.'' Trans. Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood. London: Routledge, 1998. {{ISBN|0878305521}}. |
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* Allain, Paul, and Jen Harvie. 2006. ''The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance''. London: Routledge. ISBN |
* Allain, Paul, and Jen Harvie. 2006. ''The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance''. London: Routledge. {{ISBN|0415257212}}. |
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* Banham, Martin, ed. 1998. ''The Cambridge Guide to Theatre.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN |
* Banham, Martin, ed. 1998. ''The Cambridge Guide to Theatre.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|0521434378}}. |
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* Benedetti, Jean. 1989. ''Stanislavski: An Introduction''. Revised edition. Original edition published in 1982. London: Methuen. ISBN |
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* [[Walter Benjamin|Benjamin, Walter]]. 1986. ''Moscow Diary''. Trans. Richard Sieburth. Ed. Gary Smith. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard UP. ISBN |
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* [[Eric Bentley|Bentley, Eric]]. 1962. "Emotional Memory." in ''The Theory of the Modern Stage: An Introduction to Modern Theatre and Drama''. Ed. Eric Bentley. New York and London: Applause, 1997. 275-278. Rpt. of "Who was Ribot? or: Did Stanislavsky Know Any Psychology?". ''Tulane Drama Review'' (1962). |
* [[Eric Bentley|Bentley, Eric]]. 1962. "Emotional Memory." in ''The Theory of the Modern Stage: An Introduction to Modern Theatre and Drama''. Ed. Eric Bentley. New York and London: Applause, 1997. 275-278. Rpt. of "Who was Ribot? or: Did Stanislavsky Know Any Psychology?". ''Tulane Drama Review'' (1962). |
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* Bradby, David, and John McCormick. 1978. ''People's Theatre.'' London: Croom Helm and Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield. ISBN |
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* Braun, Edward. 1982. "Stanislavsky and [[Anton Chekhov|Chekhov]]". ''The Director and the Stage: From Naturalism to Grotowski''. London: Methuen. ISBN |
* Braun, Edward. 1982. "Stanislavsky and [[Anton Chekhov|Chekhov]]". ''The Director and the Stage: From Naturalism to Grotowski''. London: Methuen. {{ISBN|0413463001}}. p. 59-76. |
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* ---. 1995. ''Meyerhold: A Revolution in Theatre.'' Rev. 2nd ed. London: Methuen. ISBN |
* ---. 1995. ''Meyerhold: A Revolution in Theatre.'' Rev. 2nd ed. London: Methuen. {{ISBN|0413727300}}. |
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* Carlson, Marvin. 1993. ''Theories of the Theatre: A Historical and Critical Survey from the Greeks to the Present.'' Expanded ed. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. ISBN |
* Carlson, Marvin. 1993. ''Theories of the Theatre: A Historical and Critical Survey from the Greeks to the Present.'' Expanded ed. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. {{ISBN|0801481546}}. |
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* Carnicke, Sharon M. 1998. ''Stanislavsky in Focus''. Russian Theatre Archive Ser. London: Harwood Academic Publishers. ISBN |
* Carnicke, Sharon M. 1998. ''Stanislavsky in Focus''. Russian Theatre Archive Ser. London: Harwood Academic Publishers. {{ISBN|9057550709}}. |
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* ---. 2000. "Stanislavsky's System: Pathways for the Actor". In Hodge (2000, 11-36). |
* ---. 2000. "Stanislavsky's System: Pathways for the Actor". In Hodge (2000, 11-36). |
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* Chamberlain, Franc. 2000. "Michael Chekhov on the Technique of Acting: 'Was Don Quixote True to Life?'" In Hodge (2000, 79-97). |
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* Clark, Katerina ''et al.'', ed. 2007. ''Soviet Culture and Power: A History in Documents, 1917-1953.'' Annals of Communism ser. New Haven: Yale UP. ISBN |
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* Counsell, Colin. 1996. ''Signs of Performance: An Introduction to Twentieth-Century Theatre.'' London and New York: Routledge. ISBN |
* Counsell, Colin. 1996. ''Signs of Performance: An Introduction to Twentieth-Century Theatre.'' London and New York: Routledge. {{ISBN|0415106435}}. |
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* Dacre, Kathy, and Paul Fryer, eds. 2008. ''Stanislavski on Stage.'' Sidcup, Kent: Stanislavski Centre Rose Bruford College. ISBN |
* Dacre, Kathy, and Paul Fryer, eds. 2008. ''Stanislavski on Stage.'' Sidcup, Kent: Stanislavski Centre Rose Bruford College. {{ISBN|1903454018}}. |
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* [[Uta Hagen|Hagen, Uta]]. 1973. ''Respect for Acting''. New York: Macmillan. ISBN |
* [[Uta Hagen|Hagen, Uta]]. 1973. ''Respect for Acting''. New York: Macmillan. {{ISBN|0025473905}}. |
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* Gauss, Rebecca B. 1999. ''Lear's Daughters: The Studios of the Moscow Art Theatre 1905-1927''. American University Studies ser. 26 Theatre Arts, vol. 29. New York: Peter Lang. ISBN |
* Gauss, Rebecca B. 1999. ''Lear's Daughters: The Studios of the Moscow Art Theatre 1905-1927''. American University Studies ser. 26 Theatre Arts, vol. 29. New York: Peter Lang. {{ISBN|0820441554}}. |
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* Hartnoll, Phyllis, ed. 1983. ''The Oxford Companion to the Theatre''. 4th ed. Oxford: Oxford UP. ISBN |
* Hartnoll, Phyllis, ed. 1983. ''The Oxford Companion to the Theatre''. 4th ed. Oxford: Oxford UP. {{ISBN|0192115464}}. |
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* Hobgood, Burnet M. 1991. "Stanislavsky's Preface to ''[[An Actor Prepares]]''". ''Theatre Journal'' 43: 229-232. |
* Hobgood, Burnet M. 1991. "Stanislavsky's Preface to ''[[An Actor Prepares]]''". ''Theatre Journal'' 43: 229-232. |
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* Hodge, Alison, ed. 2000. ''Twentieth-Century Actor Training''. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN |
* Hodge, Alison, ed. 2000. ''Twentieth-Century Actor Training''. London and New York: Routledge. {{ISBN|0415194520}}. |
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* Innes, Christopher, ed. 2000. ''A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre''. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN |
* Innes, Christopher, ed. 2000. ''A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre''. London and New York: Routledge. {{ISBN|0415152291}}. |
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* Leach, Robert. 1989. ''Vsevolod Meyerhold''. Directors in perspective ser. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. ISBN |
* Leach, Robert. 1989. ''Vsevolod Meyerhold''. Directors in perspective ser. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. {{ISBN|0521318432}}. |
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* ---. 2004. ''Makers of Modern Theatre: An Introduction''. London: Routledge. ISBN |
* ---. 2004. ''Makers of Modern Theatre: An Introduction''. London: Routledge. {{ISBN|0415312418}}. |
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* Leach, Robert, and Victor Borovsky, eds. 1999. ''A History of Russian Theatre.'' Cambridge: Cambridge UP. ISBN |
* Leach, Robert, and Victor Borovsky, eds. 1999. ''A History of Russian Theatre.'' Cambridge: Cambridge UP. {{ISBN|0521432200}}. |
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* Magarshack, David. 1950. ''Stanislavsky: A Life.'' London and Boston: Faber, 1986. ISBN |
* Magarshack, David. 1950. ''Stanislavsky: A Life.'' London and Boston: Faber, 1986. {{ISBN|0571137911}}. |
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* Markov, Pavel Aleksandrovich. 1934. ''The First Studio: Sullerzhitsky-Vackhtangov-Tchekhov.'' Trans. Mark Schmidt. New York: Group Theatre. |
* Markov, Pavel Aleksandrovich. 1934. ''The First Studio: Sullerzhitsky-Vackhtangov-Tchekhov.'' Trans. Mark Schmidt. New York: Group Theatre. |
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* Milling, Jane, and Graham Ley. 2001. ''Modern Theories of Performance: From Stanislavski to Boal''. Basingstoke, Hampshire and New York: Palgrave. ISBN |
* Milling, Jane, and Graham Ley. 2001. ''Modern Theories of Performance: From Stanislavski to Boal''. Basingstoke, Hampshire and New York: Palgrave. {{ISBN|0333775422}}. |
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* Mirodan, Vladimir. 1997. "The Way of Transformation: The Laban-Malmgren System of Dramatic Character Analysis." Diss. Royal Holloway College, U of London. |
* Mirodan, Vladimir. 1997. "The Way of Transformation: The Laban-Malmgren System of Dramatic Character Analysis." Diss. Royal Holloway College, U of London. |
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* Mitter, Shomit. 1992. ''Systems of Rehearsal: Stanislavsky, Brecht, Grotowski and Brook.'' London and NY: Routledge. ISBN |
* Mitter, Shomit. 1992. ''Systems of Rehearsal: Stanislavsky, Brecht, Grotowski and Brook.'' London and NY: Routledge. {{ISBN|0415067847}}. |
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* Moore, Sonia. 1968. ''Training an Actor: The Stanislavski System in Class.'' New York: Viking. ISBN |
* Moore, Sonia. 1968. ''Training an Actor: The Stanislavski System in Class.'' New York: Viking. {{ISBN|0670002496}}. |
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* Pitches, Jonathan. 2006. ''Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting.'' London: Routledge. ISBN |
* Pitches, Jonathan. 2006. ''Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting.'' London: Routledge. {{ISBN|0415329078}}. |
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* Roach, Joseph R. 1985. ''The Player's Passion: Studies in the Science of Acting''. Theater:Theory/Text/Performance Ser. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. {{ISBN|0472082442}}. |
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Konstantin Stanislavski | |
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| Occupation | Actor Theatre director Theatre theorist |
| Literary movement | Naturalism Symbolism Psychological realism Socialist realism |
| Notable works | Founder of the MAT Stanislavski's 'system' An Actor's Work An Actor's Work on a Role My Life in Art |
| Spouse | Maria Petrovna Perevostchikova (stage name: Maria Liliana) |
Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavski (Russian: Константин Серге́евич Станиславский) (17 January [O.S. 5 January] 1863 – 7 August 1938), was a Russian actor and theatre director.[1][2] He was widely recognised as an outstanding character actor and the many productions that he directed garnered a reputation as one of the leading directors of his generation.[3] His principal fame and influence, however, rests on his 'system' of actor training, preparation, and rehearsal technique.[4] His development of a theorised praxis—in which practice is used as a mode of inquiry and theory as a catalyst for creative development—identifies him as the first great theatre practitioner.[5]
Theatre-making is a serious endeavour that requires dedication, discipline and integrity, Stanislavski thought, and he viewed the work of the actor as an artistic undertaking.[6] He treated the theatre as an art-form that is autonomous from literature and one in which the playwright's contribution should be respected as that of only one of an ensemble of creative artists.[7] Following a legendary 18-hour discussion with Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, in 1898 Stanislavski and Nemirovich founded the world-famous Moscow Art Theatre (MAT) company.[8] Its influential tours of Europe (1906) and the US (1923-4) and its landmark productions of The Seagull (1898) and Hamlet (1911-12) established his reputation and opened new possibilities for the art of the theatre.[9] Stanislavski's approach to theatre-making responded to a wide range of influences and ideas, including his study of the modernist and avant-garde developments of his time (naturalism, symbolism and Meyerhold's constructivism), Russian formalism, Yoga, Pavlovian behaviourist psychology, James-Lange (via Ribot) psychophysiology, and the aesthetics of Belinsky and the realists Pushkin, Shchepkin, Gogol, and Tolstoy.[10]
Stanislavski's innovative contribution to modern acting theory has remained at the core of mainstream western performance training for much of the last century.[11] That many of the precepts of his 'system' seem to be common sense and self-evident testifies to its hegemonic success.[12] Actors frequently employ his basic concepts without knowing they do so.[12] Thanks to its promotion and elaboration by acting teachers who were former students and the many translations of his theoretical writings, Stanislavski's 'system' acquired an unprecedented ability to cross cultural boundaries and developed an international reach, dominating debates about acting in Europe and America.[13] His work was as important to the development of socialist realism in the Soviet Union as it was to that of psychological realism in the United States.[14] Many actors routinely equate his 'system' with the American Method, although the latter's exclusively psychological techniques contrast sharply with Stanislavski's multivariant, holistic and psychophysical approach, which explores character and action both from the 'inside out' and the 'outside in' and treats the actor's mind and body as parts of a continuum.[15]
Biography
[edit]The biography of Konstantin Stanislavski straddles two centuries, a world war, and political and artistic revolutions.[16] During his life, he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner and the Order of Lenin and was one of the first to be granted the title of People's Artist of the USSR.[17] He was widely recognised as an outstanding character actor and the many productions that he directed garnered a reputation as one of the leading directors of his generation.[3] His principal fame and influence, however, rests on his 'system' of actor training, preparation, and rehearsal technique.[4]
Stanislavski (his stage name) performed and directed as an amateur until the age of 33, when he co-founded the world-famous Moscow Art Theatre (MAT) company with Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, following a legendary 18-hour discussion.[8] Its influential tours of Europe (1906) and the US (1923-4) and its landmark productions of The Seagull (1898) and Hamlet (1911-12) established his reputation and opened new possibilities for the art of the theatre.[9] By means of the MAT, Stanislavski was instrumental in promoting the new Russian drama of his day—principally the work of Anton Chekhov, Maxim Gorky, and Mikhail Bulgakov—to audiences in Moscow and around the world; he also staged acclaimed productions of a wide range of classical Russian and European plays.[18] He collaborated with the director and designer Edward Gordon Craig and was formative in the development of several other major practitioners, including Vsevolod Meyerhold (whom Stanislavski considered his "sole heir in the theatre"), Yevgeny Vakhtangov, and Michael Chekhov.[19] At the MAT's 30-year anniversary celebrations in 1928, a massive heart attack on-stage put an end to his acting career (though he waited until the curtain fell before seeking medical assistance).[20] He continued to direct, teach, and write about acting until his death a few weeks before the publication of the first volume of his life's great work, the acting manual An Actor's Work (1938).[21]
The 'system'
[edit]To export to article on An Actor's Work
[edit]Throughout the writing process he worked closely with Gurevich, who served as his editor.[22] On 22 April 1930, Stanislavski signed a contract with Elizabeth Hapgood, who had been working on an English translation, that granted her power to negotiate contracts for the publication of his books on the 'system' in all languages.[23] The first volume was largely complete by August 1930.[24] Unimpressed with the draft, Gurevich encouraged him to include more of the material he had already written, especially that which explained "bits and tasks"; she also suggested including the three-fold distinction between the "art of experiencing," the "art of representation," and the "stock-in-trade" approaches to acting from a draft called Various Trends in the Theatre.[25] Stanislavski confirmed that he now thought in terms of two distinct versions, an American and a Soviet edition.[26] He elaborated a plan in which the Russian An Actor's Work on Himself would be the first in a sequence of eight books (that would include My Life in Art) covering all aspects of theatre-making.[27]
Productions
[edit](draft: List of productions)
He also worked with a number of important artists, stage designers, and composers, including Viktor Simov, Alexandre Benois, Aleksandr Golovin, and Konstantin Korovin.
Legacy
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Many of Stanislavski's former students taught acting in the USA, including Richard Boleslavsky, Maria Ouspenskaya, Michael Chekhov, Andrius Jilinsky, Leo Bulgakov, Varvara Bulgakov, Vera Solovyova, and Tamara Daykarhanova.[28] Others—including Stella Adler and Joshua Logan—"grounded careers in brief periods of study" with Stanislavski.[28] Boleslavsky and Ouspenskaya founded the influential American Laboratory Theatre in 1923.
Boleslavsky and Ouspenskaya went on to found the influential American Laboratory Theatre (1923-1933) in New York, which they modeled on the First Studio. Boleslavsky's manual Acting: The First Six Lessons (1933) played a significant role in the transmission of Stanislavski's ideas and practices to the United States.
One of Boleslavsky's students, Lee Strasberg, went on to co-found the Group Theatre (1931-1940) in New York with Harold Clurman and Cheryl Crawford. Together with Stella Adler and Sanford Meisner, Strasberg developed the earliest of Stanislavski's techniques into "Method acting," which he taught at the Actors Studio.[29] Meisner, an actor at the Group Theatre, went on to teach at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, where he developed what came to be known as the Meisner technique.
"seemingly endless hostility among warring camps, each proclaiming themselves his only true disciples, like religious fanatics, turning dynamic ideas into rigid dogma."[30]
| “ | His work provided a systematic base for students such as Evgeny Vakhtangov and Vsevolod Meyerhold to depart from, and for Lee Strasberg to develop (though many would say misconstrue) into the Method via students of Stanislavsky like Richard Boleslavsky, who went to work in the United States of America.[31] | ” |
Jerzy Grotowski regarded Stanislavski as the primary influence on his own theatre work.[32]
Stanislavski's work made little impact on British theatre before the 1960s.[33] Joan Littlewood and Ewan MacColl were the first to introduce Stanislavski's techniques to Britain.[32] In their Theatre Workshop, the experimental studio that they founded together, Littlewood used improvisation as a means to explore character and situation and insisted that her actors define their character's behaviour in terms of a sequence of objectives.[32] The actor Michael Redgrave was also an early advocate of Stanislavski's approach in Britain.[34]
- Need to include material on Brecht's assessment of Stanislavski's work.
Fictional references
[edit]Mikhail Bulgakov satirised Stanislavski by means of the character "Ivan Vasilievich" in his novel Black Snow (also called The Theatrical Novel). While Bulgakov portrays him as a great actor, he suggests that his famous "method" hinders actors' performances with its ridiculous exercises. Despite this caustic assessment, Stanislavski and Bulgakov remained good friends.
See also
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Notes
[edit]- ^ a b For dates before the Soviet state's switch from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar in February 1918, this article gives the date in the New Style (Gregorian) date-format first, followed by the same day in the Old Style (Julian) date-format (which appears in square brackets and slightly smaller); this is to facilitate comparison between primary and secondary sources. The difference between the two is 12 days for Julian dates prior to 1 March 1900 [Gregorian 14 March] and 13 days for Julian dates on or after 1 March 1900. Thus, Stanislavski was born on the 17 January according to the Gregorian calendar that is in use today, while his birthday was 5 January according to the Julian calendar that was in use at the time. For more information on the difference between the two systems, see the article Old Style and New Style dates. Dates after 1 February 1918 are presented as normal.
- ^ The introduction to this article draws on the introductions and overviews in the following commentaries: Banham (1998), Benedetti (1989), Carnicke (1998), Counsell (1996), Innes (2000), and Milling and Ley (2001).
- ^ a b Benedetti (1999b, 254), Carnicke (2000, 12), Leach (2004, 14), and Milling and Ley (2001, 1).
- ^ a b Carnicke (2000, 16), Golub (1998, 1032), and Milling and Ley (2001, 1). Stanislavski began developing a 'grammar' of acting in 1906; his initial choice to call it his System struck him as too dogmatic, so he wrote it as his 'system' (without the capital letter and in inverted commas) to indicate the provisional nature of the results of his investigations—modern scholarship follows that practice; see Benedetti (1999a, 169), Gauss (1999, 3-4), and Milling and Ley (2001, 1).
- ^ Benedetti (1989, 1), Counsell (1996, 25), and Gordon (2006, 39). Stanislavski's 'system' is, Benedetti argues, "his practice examined, tested and verified."
- ^ Benedetti (1989, 1), Carnicke (1998, 162), and Magarshack (1950, 376). Magarshack writes that Stanislavski considered "the pre-eminent position of the art of the actor" to be "the fundamental principle of the art of the stage."
- ^ Benedetti (1999a, 124, 202) and (2008b, 6), Carnicke (1998, 162), and Gauss (1999, 2). In 1902, Stanislavski wrote that "the author writes on paper. The actor writes with his body on the stage" and that the "score of an opera is not the opera itself and the script of a play is not drama until both are made flesh and blood on stage"; quoted by Benedetti (1999a, 124).
- ^ a b Benedetti (1999a, 59), Braun (1982, 59), Carnicke (2000, 11-12), and Worrall (1996, 43).
- ^ a b Benedetti (1999a, 165), Carnicke (2000, 12), Gauss (1999, 1), Gordon (2006, 42), and Milling and Ley (2001, 13-14).
- ^ Neither the Soviet nor the American approaches "found Stanislavsky's study of avant-garde and Eastern arts of more than passing interest," Carnicke explains; her own study is one of a number that seek to redress that (1998); see also Milling and Ley (2001). For the relationship to Russian formalism, see Carnicke (1998, 161-162). For the influence of Yoga, see Carnicke (1998, 138-145), Leach (2004, 30-31), Magarshack (1950, 322), and White (2006). For the influence of Ivan Pavlov and Behaviorism, see Roach (1985). For the influence of Théodule-Armand Ribot and the James-Lange theory, see Benedetti (1999a, 184-185), Bentley (1962, 275-278), Carnicke (1998, 131-138) and Whyman (2008, 117-122). For the influence of Leo Tolstoy, see Benedetti (2005, 120) and Carnicke (1998, 110-112); Rudnitsky argues that the "universal recognition of Stanislavski's and Nemirovich-Danchenko's masterpieces of direction has been conditioned to a great degree by the organic connection between their work and the traditions of nineteenth-century Russian prose, which has enriched the cultural and spiritual heritage of mankind" (1981, 141). For the influence of Vissarion Belinsky, see Benedetti (1999a, 35-37). For the influence of Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Shchepkin, and Nikolai Gogol, see Benedetti (1989, 5-11), (1999a, 14-17) and (205, 100-109).
- ^ Banham (1998, 1032), Carnicke (1998, 1), Counsell (1996, 24-25), Gordon (2006, 37-40), and Leach (2004, 29).
- ^ a b Counsell (1996, 25).
- ^ Banham (1998, 1032), Carnicke (1998, 1, 167), Counsell (1996, 24), and Milling and Ley (2001, 1).
- ^ Milling and Ley (2001, 2) and Carnicke (1998).
- ^ Benedetti (2005, 147-148) and Carnicke (1998, 1, 8). Not only actors are subject to this confusion; Lee Strasberg's obituary in The New York Times credited Stanislavski with the invention of the Method: "Mr. Strasberg adapted it to the American theatre, imposing his refinements, but always crediting Stanislavsky as his source" (Quoted by Carnicke 1998, 9). Carnicke argues that this "robs Strasberg of the originality in his thinking, while simultaneously obscuring Stanislavsky's ideas" (1997, 9). In a note from 1913 Stanislavski wrote that a character "is sometimes formed psychologically, i.e. from the inner image of the role, but at other times it is discovered through purely external exploration"; quoted by Benedetti (1999a, 216). Neither the tradition that formed in the USSR nor the American Method, Carnicke argues, "integrated the mind and body of the actor, the corporal and the spiritual, the text and the performance as thoroughly or as insistently as did Stanislavsky himself" (1998, 2). For evidence of Strasberg's misunderstanding of this aspect of Stanislavski's work, see Strasberg (2010, 150-151).
- ^ Carnicke (2000, 11).
- ^ Carnicke (1998, 33), Golub (1998, 1033), and Magarshack (1950, 385, 396).
- ^ Carnicke (2000, 12-16, 29-33) and Gordon (2006, 42).
- ^ Bablet (1962, 133-158), Benedetti (1999a, 156, 188-211, 368-373), Braun (1995, 27-29), Roach (1985, 215-216), Rudnitsky (1981, 56), and Taxidou (1998, 66-69).
- ^ Benedetti (1999a, 317) and Magarshack (1950, 378).
- ^ Benedetti (1999a, 374-375) and Magarshack (1950, 404).
- ^ Benedetti (1999a, 319-346), Magarshack (1950, 380-381), and Milling and Ley (2001, 4).
- ^ Benedetti (1999a, 331) and Carnicke (1998, 75). As a Soviet citizen, Stanislavski was unable to establish US copyright himself. In 1929, Stanislavski stayed at the spa in Badenweiler where he was joined by Elizabeth Hapgood, and together they discussed the project. Hapgood began to translate the material later when they were in Nice. Elizabeth's husband, Norman, edited the translated material; see Benedetti (1999a, 322-324). On 3 November 1930, Stanislavski returned to Moscow; see Benedetti (1999a, 332).
- ^ Benedetti (1999a, 332) and Carnicke (1998, 73); Carnicke gives the date for a complete manuscript as November. In August Stanislavski read the draft to Leonid Leonidov in Badenweiler; Leonidov response was to declare "This is not 'system', it is a complete culture."
- ^ Benedetti (1999a, 333).
- ^ Benedetti (1999a, 334-335). "I am only thinking of America, a completely bourgeois country" Stanislavski wrote in response to Gurevich's repeated concerns about the suitability of many of his examples to contemporary Soviet experience, adding that in the Soviet edition "all the examples, all the characters will have to be changed"; quoted by Benedetti (1999a, 334). Gurevich encouraged Stanislavski to adapt his examples (such as the loss of an expensive broach or counting large bundles of banknotes) to the realities of Soviet life; see Benedetti (1999a, 321-322) and Carnicke (1998, 80-81).
- ^ Benedetti (1999a, 335).
- ^ a b Carnicke (1998, 3).
- ^ Milling and Ley (2001, 4).
- ^ Carnicke (1998, 5).
- ^ Allain and Harvie (2006, 70).
- ^ a b c Leach (2004, 46).
- ^ Gordon (2006, 71).
- ^ Benedetti (1999a, xiii) and Leach (2004, 46).
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[edit]He discovered his "principle of opposites," as expressed in his aphoristic advice to the actor: "When you play a good man, try to find out where he is bad, and when you play a villain, try to find where he is good."[1]
- Need to check this more thoroughly, since Benedetti challenges the accuracy of Stan's dating of this discovery.
- ^ Benedetti (1999a, 39), Magarshack (1950, 67-68), Milling and Ley (2001, 10-11), and Worrall (1996, 27). Stanislavski made this discovery during his work on the society's production of Aleksey Pisemsky's historical play Men Above the Law in 1889. The title of the play has also been translated as Despots and A Law unto Themselves. Stanislavski played Imshin in a production that opened on 26 November 1889. He directed another production of the play with the Society in 1895.
- ^ Gordon (2006, 37-38).
- ^ Gordon (2006, 45).