Word: stanislavsky
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ORDINARILY in this country. Chekhov's works have been performed by actors who subscribe to Stanislavski's "method." a revolutionary approach to acting which developed around Chekhov's plays in turn-of-the-century Russia. Method actors have trained us to think of Chekhov plays as having quiet, detailed surfaces under which internalized explosions almost imperceptively crupt. In Moss's Three Sisters, this now-standard approach to the playwright is turned inside out (and must be, since Grotowski's views on acting are in practice, if not purpose, almost diametrically opposed to Stanislavski...
...crust of adjectives as thick as barnacles on a pearling lugger."* Then, at 30, bored with the "non-Aristotelian inevitability of August doubleheaders," he decided to take a fling at acting. "I brought to the stage," he recalls, "a keen sense of Thackeray, Dickens and Trollope-and none of Stanislavski...
...director, Adrian Hall, is forceful; and has a new approach to acting. More and more actors are getting tired of the dominant modes on Broadway: Lee Strasberg's regurgitation of Stanislavski's Kazan's "emotional method acting," and the rest. At Trinity, the actor has nothing imposed upon him. "When you come on stage, you bring something with you," Hall says...
...troupers of Theatre Group 20 London will present a free demonstration at 8:30 p.m. tonight at the Drama Center, showing "in dra form the three principal " on which their work is ed dance and movement teaching mask scenarios, and the acting originated by Stanislavski. is making its first American...
...Stanislavski, who directed the first serious production of The Seagull, thought the play was a tragedy, and later directors have tended to adopt this interpretation even though Chekhov himself called it a comedy. By now, in fact, the "gloom" of Chekhov has become such a joke that any less than perfect production of his plays can easily make them seem farcical...