Stanislavski Influence

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Pitches also notes that ‘Of all Meyerhold’s creative relationships, his time with Stanislavski was the most influential, not because Meyerhold followed in his teacher’s footsteps – he didn’t – but because the two men shared a fundamental belief in the complete raining of an actor and in the need to experiment continually.’ (Ibid: 6).
Vakhtangov joined the Moscow Art Theatre in March 1911. In his early work as a director Vakhtangov was noted for his scrupulous adherence to the System as he understood it, which not surprisingly given the work Stanislavski was doing at the time was focused primarily upon the inner processes of the actor, such as affective memory. In time, however, he grew to feel frustrated and confined by the System, and spoke of his ‘tortuous attempt to break out of Stanislavski’s chains’ (Malaev-Babel, 2011: 15). Vakhtangov increasingly begin to differentiate his approach from that of Stanislavski. He began to use a more improvisatory approach in rehearsal. He declared that ‘theatre is a holiday’, and developed the concept of what Whyman terms ‘unconscious processing’, that is, ‘today’s rehearsal is not for its own sake but for the sake of tomorrow’s’, which he said took away panic and strain in young actors.’ (Whyman, 2008: 160).
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Juliet could see her hideous Romeo and take delight in resolving the contradiction between the actual actor opposite and the wonderful image, responding to the image. What the idea of the image, of consciously using the theatrical, artistic, imaginative situation enabled Vakhtangov to do was to, according to Whyman, ‘step… over Stanislavski’s theatre of experiencing and real life to assert the life of the image and art – the imaginative creation of the director, actor and writer.’ (Ibid:

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