Stanislavski Research

Konstantin Stanislavski was a Russian stage actor and a director who developed the naturalistic performance technique known as the Stanislavsky method, or method acting. He was born in 1863 in Moscow, Russia. In 1888, he founded the Society of Art and Literature. As the years went past he decided to work and provide a guiding method for actors to use and develop, he believed that the actors needed to inhabit authentic emotion while on stage and to do that they can draw upon the emotions. he also developed his own method to get the actors encourage to explore their characters motivations so it gives the performance depth. He was born Konstantin Sergeievich Alexeiev. He adopted the stage name Stanislavski in 1884 to keep his performance activities secret from his parents. Up until the communist revolution

in 1917. and actions in the characters they try to perform. Furthermore, some of Stanislavski method acting is basically in seven steps, these techniques where:

1.   Who Am I?

2.   Where Am I?

3.   When Is It?

4.   What Do I Want?

5.   Why Do I Want It?

6.   How Will I Get It?

7. What do I do to overcome it?