Constantin Sergeyevich Stanislavski (7 August 1938), was a Russia

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n actor and theatre director. Building on the directorially-unified aesthetic

Gesamtkunstwerk

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 and ensemble

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 playing of the Meiningen company

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 and the naturalistic

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 staging of Antoine

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 and the independent theatre movement, Stanislavski organized his realistic techniques into a coherent and usable 'system.' Thanks to its promotion and development by acting teachers who were former students and the many translations of his theoretical writings, Stanislavski's 'system' acquired an unprecedented ability to cross cultural boundaries and developed an international reach, dominating debates about acting in the West.