![]() ![]() ![]() He was the scion of wealthy industrialists, and he dutifully did his part to manage the family business, overseeing factories manufacturing gold and silver thread. The man who would become Konstantin Stanislavski was born Konstantin Alekseiev in 1863 in Moscow. By his own lights, he stumbled on as many wrong ideas as he did right ones in the course of his investigations what is strange is that, over a century later, no one seems to agree which ones are which. ![]() What kind of preparation is necessary, he asked, to achieve “a state of living within the ‘very middle of an imagined life’”? Stanislavski’s ultimate importance lies not in the specific answers he arrived at so much as in the fact that he believed the question could be answered at all. In his search, Stanislavski introduced the idea that great acting is not a matter of personal charisma or divine inspiration but of intellectual rigor and critical intelligence. ![]() The rest of Stanislavski’s career would be devoted to specifying this “something else.” He would go on to devise a set of theories and techniques he called “the system,” which would mutate, after being imported to the United States, into “the Method,” and completely transform American theater and film. ![]()
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