Constantin+Stanislavski

Consantin Stanislavsky Born in Moscow in 1863, Constantin Stanislavsky had the biggest effect on the process and development of acting than anyone else in during the whole twentieth century. At the age of 14, Stanislavsky joined a theatrical group that was organized by his family, and soon became its center of attraction. Throughout the late 1800s he improved a lot as an actor and began to produce and direct plays. It was his goal that if the theater was going to be meaningful it needed to move beyond the only external presentation that acting had been before. Over his forty years of acting he created an approach that completely changed and developed the aspects of acting. The Stanislavsky System, or "the method," as it is known as in the current day, held that an actor’s main responsibility was to be believed. To reach this "believable truth", Stanislavsky first employed methods such as "emotional memory." He prepared for a role that involves fear, the actor must remember something frightening, and attempt to act the part in the emotional space of that fear they once felt. Stanislavsky believed that an actor needed to take his or her own personality onto the stage and at it on to the character. This was a unclear change from previous modes of acting that held that the actor's job was to become the character and leave their own emotions behind. Which was the exact opposite of what Stanislavsky had in mind. Later Stanislavsky focused on the creation of the physical entries that go with these emotional states, believing that the repetition of certain acts and exercises could bridge the gap between life on and off the stage. In his travels throughout the world with the Moscow Arts Theater, Stanislavsky earned national and international reputation as an actor, a director, and also as a coach. Among his followers and supporters were the writers Tolstoy and Chekov. While Stanislavsky’s new method of acting supported actors in breaking from the exact lines and actions of the script, it also demanded that they should pay even closer attention to the important unsaid messages within the writing. This prompted writers such as Chekov to make subtler emotionally alive work. Today in the United States, Stanislavsky’s theories are the primary source of study for many actors all around the world. Among the best known of these proponents is the [|Actor’s Studio], an organization that has been home to some of the most talented and successful actors of our time.