Method acting

Method acting is an acting technique in which actors try to replicate the emotional conditions under which the character operates in real life, in an effort to process an acting role.

Teachers

Stanislavski's works, including the autobiography My Life in Art, and his trilogy of books set in a fictionalized acting-school as a pretense for his own teachings: An Actor Prepares, Building a Character, and Creating a Role, inspired many others who have followed the example of Stanislavski as prominent Method teachers. They include:

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• Michael Chekhov, Anton Chekhov's nephew;
• Eugeny Vakhtangov, a Stanislavski student and protegé
• Uta Hagen, the author of Respect for Acting
• Richard Boleslawski
• Stella Adler
• Lee Strasberg
• Sanford Meisner