Konstantin Stanislavski

Konstantin Sergeievich Stanislavski (né Alexeiev; ; 7 August 1938) was a Russian actor and director.Stanislavski's first name is also transliterated as "Constantin", while his surname is also transliterated as "Stanislavsky" and "Stanislavskii". As discussed below, "Stanislavski" is a stage name.  He was widely known as an outstanding character actor and the many productions that he directed created a reputation as one of the leading theatre  directors of his generation.Benedetti (1999b, 254), Carnicke (2000, 12), Leach (2004, 14), and Milling and Ley (2001, 1). His principal fame and influence, however, rests on his 'system' of actor training, preparation, and rehearsal technique.Carnicke (2000, 16), Golub (1998a, 1032), and Milling and Ley (2001, 1). 

Stanislavski began developing a 'grammar' of acting in 1906; his initial choice to call it his System struck him as too dogmatic, so he wrote it as his 'system' (without the capital letter and in inverted commas) to indicate the provisional nature of the results of his investigations—modern scholarship and the standard edition of Stanislavski's works follow that practice; see Benedetti (1999a, 169), Gauss (1999, 3—4), Milling and Ley (2001, 1), and Stanislavski (1938) and (1957).

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Category:1863 births
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Category:Russian stage actors
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Category:Actors from Moscow