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Constantin Stanislavski was known as a Russian direction and stage actor who had discovered and developed a naturalistic performance technique, which is now known as method acting. Stanislavski was interested and started to work in the theatre business when he was only 13, and developed himself into becoming a director (Bishop and Jones). He was born in Moscow, Russia in 1863 and by 1897 he has already developed his own company known as the Moscow Art Theatre, where performances used method acting and actors were allowed to express their personal emotions into the piece. Stanislavski was known for his infamous phrases such as "stage direction", as these were the building blocks of modern opera and helped writers such as Maksim Gorki to produce his work ("Constantin Stanislavski").
Stanislavski's goals were to make the performances on stage look more natural and more realistic. This was done through a series of techniques called the ‘the Method’ ("Constantin Stanislavski"). Some of these techniques were channeling emotional memory, other were more about the given circumstance of the character’s situation at hand. These techniques were watched and analyzed by psychiatrists to see how the actors would react. Some techniques such as the emotional …show more content…

Thus bringing upon the question of “In what ways have the acting techniques and concepts of Stanislavski been developed and adapted by actors since their inception? ”. As the Method travelled to the United States, it travelled at the time Stanislavski was still adapting his methods, and still writing his books, therefore the full research on the Method had not yet been done. Which lead many complications to occur, and how the affective memory and the ‘American method’ turned out to be a great success in the late 1950’s but as the years progressed started to

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