Stanislavski's system

Discuss and analyse the emergence of actor training systems since 1905 In this essay, I have decided to talk about actor training that has emerged within the last one hundred years, and you truly can’t talk about popular modern actor training without talking about Constantin Stanislavski, famed Russian actor, director, and teacher, who deeply influenced the theatre of the 20th century. Born Constantin Sergeyvich Alekseyev on January 17th 1863, and died on August 7th 1938. He was born into one Russia’s wealthiest families. During my research, I was surprised to learn that he quit Drama school early on because he didn’t like the style of training, which back then called for unrealistic, over-dramatic performances. Throughout his life, he developed a variety of techniques that became known as "The Stanislavski System” which is hugely popular and widely used in the world of theatre, and especially in film today.…

Some important aspects of the System are learning to relax and avoid distraction, developing the imagination, emotion memory, The Magic If, becoming the character, and Physical Action. Stanislavsky came up with “Emotion Memory" by examining parts he had played, becoming aware of how much his characterisations had been based on his memories. In order to develop this technique, Stanislavski looked into scientific conceptions such as the interaction of brain and body. He wanted the actors to…

Stanislavski’s work has not only helped people to become better actors, but also have helped others to become better people by helping them understand themselves. He has provided a system to help actors process of characterization which can also be applied to one’s everyday life. The first way Stanislavski’s work that stood out to me was the first proposition he makes for having actors become like the characters. He mentions how one must believe that that he or she is convincingly in the same…

I think that it would be fairly difficult to balance concentration on stage with appropriate level of audience awareness as it is difficult to concentrate on the performance without ignoring the audience. In the same way, it would be difficult to focus on the audience without losing concentration of the performance. As Stanislavsky recognised the audience as co-creator of the performances it shows that the audience are very a very important part of theatre and to forget about them during a…

Stanislavski did not want his students to forget the audience, he just wanted them to have the appropriate awareness while on stage. He wanted the audience to still be aware of them as the audience plays a huge part in theatre. I think his idea of concentrating on something on stage, to keep the focus off the audience, is a good idea. He thought if his actors observed the object intensively enough, a desire would arise in them, to do something with it. Although, the actors lost basic faculties…

When actors are performing on stage for an audience there can be many distractions which could ruin there performance. Stanislavski believed that if the actors observed an object with intensity, they would become interested in it which would help them develop an action with it. Although Stanislavski didn’t want his actors to easily become distracted by the audience, he didn’t advise that the actor forget the audience, or believe they didn’t exist. He thought that would be contradictory to the…

Stanislavski was extremely concerned that the actors would get distracted by the audience when they are performing on stage. Stanislavski came up with a way to make actors observe in a way in which it would help them develop their acting making them more focused and aware. The audience is very important to the overall piece, however he did not find them a ‘crippling factor’. Stanislavski came to realise that actor’s lost control of their basic acting skills on stage. Moreover it was recognised…

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