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Konstantin Stanislavski Stanislavski was born in Moscow in 1863 and died in 1938. He was a Russian actor and Director also an author of the books An Actor Prepares (1936) and Building Character (1948) Stanislavski created a performance technique that had an enormous effect on contemporary American acting, and he developed a system of actor training that became widely accepted throughout the world. Acknowledged as the most influential personality of Russian theatre, Stanislavski confounded the Moscow Art Theatre which was regarded as one of the world's outstanding theatre companies. Stanislavski was the son of wealthy Manufacturer and was given great financial backing for his amateur theatrical ventures. From 1907 until his death, Stanislavski devoted himself to developing a revolutionary system of actor training. His productions were mostly experiments in this process. He quickly applied what he learned to main stage work. Stanislavski discovered that actors who recalled their own feelings and experiences and substituted...

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