Stanislavski System

The Stanislavski System is an approach to acting developed by Konstantin Stanislavski, a Russian actor, director, and theatre administrator. The System is the result of Stanislavski's many years of efforts to determine how a human being can control, in performance, the most intangible and uncontrollable aspects of human behavior: things such as emotions, and artistic inspiration.

Conclusion

Mike Nichols once remarked in a workshop that all he wanted to do when he rehearsed a scene was to figure out, with the actors, what to do in a scene so that the scene seemed very simple -- in spite of the myriad psychological complexities that were evident. In essence, said this director, he wanted the actors to think 'All I have to do is -- this.' A deceptively simple statement, as a simple action is deceptively simple but it can stay in one's memory for a lifetime.

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