Stanislavsky's presentations

Influence of Stanislavsky in the United States:

• Stanislavsky developed a method which aimed at accessing "truth and honesty."
• Actor feeling: something Stanislavsky developed to emulate a character.

Stanislavsky influence in the US:

• American theater was never very well accepted over Russian theater
• Method acting emerged in the US through Russian immigrants
• The method used "emotional memory" as the basis of technique
• In method acting, the actor would have to rely on past experiences to recall and reproduce them on stage.
• Lee Strasbourg was very important influencing the United States as he had learned from Stanislavsky.
• Even today, Stanislavsky's method is used by actors in the United States.

Realism and Naturalism, the difference:

• Naturalism is much more reasonable, naturalism will explain the objective reasons by which each of the actors do their actions while realism will try to explain the actions in the play the most literal and "plain" way. Naturalism was influenced by the ideas of darwinism and science.