Bio |
Born in Moscow in 1863, Constantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky had a more profound effect on the process of acting than anyone else in the twentieth century. At age 14, Stanislavsky joined a theatrical g...
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Stage Settings |
Surroundings have a great influence over your feelings. . . When the external production of a play is inwardly tied up with the spiritual life of the the actors it often aquires more significance on t...
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Actors use their own feelings. |
Must we use our own, same, old feelings . . . in every kind of role from Hamlet to Sugar in "The Blue Bird" What else can you do? . . . Do you expect an actor to invent all sorts of new sensations, or...
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"I am" |
In our theatre parlance this means that I have put myself into the very centre of imaginary circumstances,. . . that I exist at the heart of an imaginary life, in a world of imaginary things, . . . an...
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Faith |
An actor must above all believe in what is happening around him . . . (and) in what he himself is doing. . . . From the instant when he is transported from the plane of actuality to that of an imagine...
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Fantasy |
Imagination creates things that can be or can happen, whereas fantasy invents things that are not in existence, which never have been or will be. . . . Both fantasy and imagination are indispensable.
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Drama |
This is the most difficult subject of study in the art of the theatre. . . . The word itself derives from ancient Greek and contains the meaning of "culminating action." The Latin word "actio" has the...
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Appraising the Facts of a Play |
The inner life . . . of the characters so concealed in the outer circumstances of their life, therefore in the facts of the play. The significance of the appraisal of facts lies in its forcing actors...
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Emotion Memory |
That kind of memory which makes you relive the sensations you once felt . . . we call emotion memory. just as your visual memory can reconstruct an inner image of some forgotten thing, place or perso...
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Ethics in the Theatre |
One more element . . . contributing to a creative dramatic state . . . I shall call . . . ethics. (the actor) needs order, discipline, a code of ethics not only for the general circumstances of his wo...
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