Life of Stanislavski (for presentation)

• He was born as Constantin Sergeyevich Alexeyev, in Moscow, 1863 but later changed his stage name to Stanislavsky from an actor he met during amateur theatricals.
• He had excellent education, including singing and ballet lessons.
• He started performing at 14 at his father's theater.
• By 1888 (25 years old) he directed and acted in performances for “Society of Art and Culture” which he had founded.
• On 1897 Vladmir Nemirovich-Danchenko and Stanislavski established the Moscow Art Theater which intended to protest against artificial theatrical conventions of the time.

• Starting with Alexey Tolstoy's Tsar Fyodor Ivanovich and then with Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, his theater started becoming popular for his realism and naturalism.
• In the next two decades, the theater continued being popular with plays from different genres, including: Maxim Gorky's sociopolitical drama The Lower Depths (1902), Leonid Andreyev's symbolic The Life of Man (1907), Maurice Maeterlinck's enchanting fairy tale The Blue Bird (1908), and Hamlet with settings by Gordon Craig (1911).

• Stanislavsky believed that, through study of the play, analysis of the role, and recall of previous emotions, the actor could arrive at the "inner truth" of a part by actually experiencing the emotions he conveyed to the audience.
• The actor must be able to repeat his previously experienced emotions at every performance.
• Stanislavsky's training aimed at stimulating the artistic intelligence of the actor, developing his inner discipline and controlling external means like voice, diction and physical movement.
• All of the best Russian actors of the 20th century emerged from his training methods.

• He published a book, called “My Life in Art.”
  He conducted several dramas of revolutionary significance.
• The Moscow art Theater was venerated as the fountainhead of “social realism.”
• His last years were concentrated on giving the final touches to his writings and he died on 1938 (75 years old).