Oleg Efremov: The Heir to Stanislavsky
Year: 2019

In his view, the director's main objective was to facilitate the actor's art rather than to encumber it with stylized effects and devices.A disciple of the Stanislavsky System, Efremov believed in the superiority of theatrical realism over other styles of directing and subscribed to the Stanislavskian 'school of experiencing' (shkola perezhivaniia) according to which the actor creates the role anew for every performance.But like all followers of the System, Efremov interpreted it in his own way,