A Stanislavski check-list

A Stanislavski check-list
These are the aspects of Stanislavski’s work which you need to be familiar with for the exam:
• Founding the Moscow Art Theatre and conditions against which Stanislavski was working
at the end of the 19 th century.
Shchepkin
Nemirovich
Ensemble theatre
• Realism/naturalism: “sense of reality on stage”. Truth and Belief.
• Attitude towards the role of the director
• Attitude towards the actor’s role: creative, disciplined work of the performers.
• Ideas about theatre form, stage settings (naturalistic detail within the mis-en-scene).
• Given circumstances
• Units and objectives. Subtext.
• Super-objective
• Through-line of action/ unbroken line of life.
• Faith and a sense of truth
• Inner sense of truth. Imagination. Psycho-techniques
Magic If
Observation
Emotion memory
Before time & After-time: Off text situations improvised.
Inner monologue
• Concentration of attention. Circles of attention.
• Action. Discovering the physical life of a role.
• Plasticity of Motion
• Relaxation of muscles.
• Inner Creative State on Stage
• Tempo-rhythm
• Communion.
• Method of Physical Action.
• Your own evaluation of Stanislavski’s work.