Konstantin Stanislavski was born under an different name. He was known as Konstantin Sergeyevich Alexeyev. His hometown is in Moscow on January 5th 1863, amidst the transition from the feudal serfdom of Czarist Russia under the role of Peter the Great, to the free enterprise of the industrial Revolution. By the time Stanislavski was born, the Alexeyev business of gold and sliver thread production had made the family name well known throughout the world.
Stanislavski coined phrases such as "stage direction," laid the foundations of modern opera and gave instant renown to the works of such talented writers and play wrights as Maksim Gorki and Anton Chekhov. Konstantin Stanislavski's process of character development, the "Stanislavski Method," was the catalyst for "method" acting-arguably the most influential acting system on the modern stage and screen.
"How does an actor act?... How can the actor learn to inspire himself? What can he do to impel himself toward that necessary yet maddenly elusive creative mood? These were the simple, awesome riddles Stanislavski dedicated his life to exploring. Where and how to 'seek those roads into the secret sources of inspiration must serve as the fundamental life problem of every true actor'...If the ability to recieve the creative mood in its full measure is given to the genius by nature", Stanislavski wondered, "then perhaps ordinary people may reach a like state after a great deal of hard work with themselves-not in its full measure, but at least in part".
The next blog will be on the history of Vaudeville Theater.
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