1st Edition

Stanislavsky and Place Siting Performance Internationally

Edited By Jonathan W. Marshall, David Shirley Copyright 2026
146 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

146 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

146 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Stanislavsky and Place offers a new approach to actor training and theatrical direction by investigating Stanislavsky’s question to his actors of “Where?” the action that they perform (and what preceded it) took place. This book explores how place functions beyond mere location in theatrical practice, addressing politics, colonialism, conflict and resistance through the lens of Stanislavsky's... Read more

0. Preface to Stanislavsky and Place: Where Nature and Creativity Dialogue

Bella Merlin

1. Introduction to the Volume: Stand In Place / Stanislavsky and Place

David Shirley

2. Reflections on an Expanding Horizon: Stanislavsky And/As Place

Jonathan Pitches

3. Planes, Trains and Russian Cosmopolitism: Stanislavsky’s Spatial Imaginary

Jonathan W. Marshall

4. Krivina, Chekhov, Stanislavsky, and the Magic of Play

Bagryana Popov

5. The Place of Affect and Emotional Feeling in Theatre’s Political Climates of Environmental Degradation

Peta Tait

6. In Place & Process: Communion on Country

Luzita Fereday, Tom Heath and Simon Stewart

7. K’s Place: Super Self Storage 1904, Stanislavsky Avenue, Cardiff

Richard Gough

8. The Place of the Body and the Subject in Australian Contemporary Performance: The Stanislavsky and Place Plenary Panel

Maitland Schnaars, Kate Champion and Matt Edgerton with Commentary from Jonathan W. Marshall

9. Notions of Dis/Place in Performance: NIDA’s Multimedia Production of Kafka’s Metamorphosis (2021)

Benjamin Schostakowski

Biography

Jonathan W. Marshall has previously published on fin de siècle performance culture in Europe, particularly as regards the neurosciences and hysteria, as well as site-based performance, and is an expert on Japanese butoh dance.

David Shirley trained at London’s ArtsEd and is currently Executive Dean of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, at Edith Cowan University, Australia. In addition to his professional profile as an actor and director, Shirley has published on Stanislavsky, Strasberg, Meisner, and others.