The Routledge Companion to Stanislavsky

R. Andrew White is Associate Professor of Theatre at Valparaiso University, where he annually directs productions. He has an MFA in Acting from Carnegie Mellon University and the Moscow Art Theatre School, and has worked as an actor at a variety of theatres in the United States. In addition, his scholarship has appeared in edited works published by Routledge and Palgrave Macmillan, as well as in top American journals including Theatre Survey, TDR/The Drama Review, and New England Theatre Journal.

CONTENTS

Illustrations and tables viii

Acknowledgements x

Abbreviations xii

INTRODUCTION

R. Andrew White 1

PART I

STANISLAVSKY ON STAGE

1 STANISLAVSKY AS AMATEUR: THE ALEKSEEV CIRCLE

AND THE SOCIETY OF ART AND LITERATURE 13

Maria Ignatieva

2 "A SEAGULL FLEW TO US FROM YALTA": STANISLAVSKY’S

LIFE IN CHEKHOV 41

Valleri J. Hohman

3 THE ORGANIC AND THE POLITICAL: STANISLAVSKY’S

DILEMMA (IBSEN, TOLSTOY, GORKY) 62

Anna Muza

4 "BACK TO OSTROVSKY!" AND FORWARD TO SOCIALIST

REALISM: STANISLAVSKY’S ARDENT HEART (1926) AND

THE STAGING OF IDEOLOGY AT THE MOSCOW ART THEATRE 90

William D. Gunn

5 STANISLAVSKY AND THE AVANT-GARDE 121

Julia Listengarten

6 SILHOUETTE OF A DESTINY: THE LETTERS OF

STANISLAVSKY 149

Anatoly Smeliansky (translated by Arch Tait)

PART II

STANISLAVSKY THE ACTING TEACHER

7 STANISLAVSKY ON VOICE AND MOVEMENT: CONTEXTS,

CONCEPTS, AND CONTENT 182

Lissa Tyler Renaud

8 A SINGER PREPARES: STANISLAVSKY AND OPERA 218

Sharon Marie Carnicke and David Rosen

9 STANISLAVSKY’S SYSTEM AND WOMEN: A FEMINIST

READING OF NEW TRANSLATIONS 254

Rosemary Malague

PART III

STANISLAVSKY’S IMPACT ON THEORY

10 THE JOURNEY OF THE MOSCOW ART THEATRE AND ITS

DISCIPLES THROUGH EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES

(1906-1937): DISSEMINATION OF AN ACTING THEORY AND

WORK METHOD 281

Marie-Christine Autant-Mathieu (translated by Elizabeth Wautlet)

11 STANISLAVSKY, TOLSTOY, AND THE "LIFE OF THE HUMAN

SPIRIT"

Daniel Larlham 315

12 STANISLAVSKY’S SYSTEM, SENSE/EMOTION MEMORY,

AND PHYSICAL ACTION/ACTIVE ANALYSIS: AMERICAN

INTERPRETATIONS OF THE SYSTEM’S LEGACY 346

David Krasner

13 THE LEGACY OF STANISLAVSKY’S IDEAS IN

NON-REALISTIC THEATRE 379

Dennis Beck

14 STANISLAVSKY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE 415

W.B. Worthen

PART IV

STANISLAVSKY’S IMPACT ON PRACTICE

15 THE EFFECTS OF RUSSIAN AND SOVIET CENSORSHIP ON THE

PRACTICE OF STANISLAVSKY’S SYSTEM 442

Sharon Marie Carnicke

16 DECODING THE SYSTEM: FIRST STEPS 472

Katerina Kamotskaia and Mark Stevenson

17 IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH: STANISLAVSKY AND STRASBERG 506

Yasen Peyankov

18 STANISLAVSKY AND RAMACHARAKA: THE IMPACT OF YOGA

AND THE OCCULT REVIVAL ON THE SYSTEM 514

R. Andrew White

19 MY LIFE IN STANISLAVSKY 547

Austin Pendleton

20 "ACTIVE ANALYSIS—MORE ACTIVE THAN YOU KNOW":

STANISLAVSKY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE 552

Rhonda Blair

21 THREE ROADS CONVERGING: STANISLAVSKY, SUZUKI,

AND SITI 552

Will Bond

22 "HERE, TODAY NOW": ACTIVE ANALYSIS FOR THE 21ST

CENTURY 576

Bella Merlin

Contributors 611

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