My Life in Art

Name: My Life in Art
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ISBN: 9780415436571

ISBN-10: 0415436575

ISBN-13: 9780415436571

Edition: 2008

Authors: Konstantin Stanislavski, Jean Benedetti

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Konstantin Stanislavski was a Russian director who transformed theatre in the West with his contributions to the birth of Realist theatre and his unprecedented approach to teaching acting. He lived through extraordinary times and his unique contribution to the arts still endures in the twenty-first century. He established the Moscow Art Theatre in 1898 with, among other plays, the premiere of Chekhov's The Seagull . He also survived revolutions, lost his fortune, found wide fame in America, and lived in internal exile under Stalin's Soviet Union. Before writing his classic manual on acting, Stanislavski began writing an autobiography that he hoped would both chronicle his rich and…

Book details

List price: $50.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 1/31/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 520
Size: 6.46" wide x 9.45" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.156
Language: English



A note on transliteration


Translator's note


Publisher's acknowledgements


Introduction: Stanislavsky's Double Life in Art



Translator's preface: Stanislavski's Hidden Life in Art



Artistic Childhood


Obstinacy


The circus


Puppet theatre


Italian opera


Pranks


Schooldays


The Maly Theatre


My debut


Acting in life


Music


Drama school


Artistic Adolescence


The Alekseev Circle


A rival


Interregnum


Artistic Youth


The Moscow Society of Art and Literature


First season


A fortunate accident


Control


Two steps back


When you play a bad man look for the good in him


Character acting


Another misunderstanding


The Meiningen Company


Hackwork


My first production in drama


Personal success


Meetings with Tolstoi


Success


My passion for directing


Experiences with professionals


Othello


A castle in Turin


The Sunken Bell


A memorable meeting


Waiting for the opening of the Moscow Art Theatre


The first season opens


The historico-realistic line


The line of fantasy and imagination


The line of Symbolism and Impressionism


The line of intuition and feeling


Chekhov's visit - Uncle Vanya


A trip to the Crimea


Three Sisters


First visit to Petersburg


Provincial tours


Savva Morozov and the building of the theatre


The socio-political line


Maksim Gorki


The Lower Depths


Instead of intuition and feeling, the line of the everyday


Instead of intuition and feeling, the line of historical Naturalism


The Cherry Orchard


The studio on Povarskaya Street


Artistic Maturity


Discovery of truths long since known


The Drama of Life


Ilya Satz and Leopold Sulerzhitski


Black velvet


The Life of Man


A visit to Maeterlinck


A Month in the Country


Duncan and Craig


Attempt to use the 'System' in life


First studio


Cabbage nights and the 'Chauve Souris'


An actor must know how to speak


Revolution


Disaster


Cain


The Bolshoi Opera Studio


Departure and return


The final balance and the future


Appendices: Variants and Articles


For the Chapter Othello


Chekhov remembered


The Moscow Art Theatre's tour in Europe and America 1922-1923


Endnotes


Chronology