CONTENTS
Illustrations and tables viii
Acknowledgements x
Abbreviations xii
INTRODUCTION
R. Andrew White 1
PART I
STANISLAVSKY ON STAGE
1 STANISLAVSKY AS AMATEUR: THE ALEKSEEV CIRCLE
AND THE SOCIETY OF ART AND LITERATURE 13
Maria Ignatieva
2 "A SEAGULL FLEW TO US FROM YALTA": STANISLAVSKY’S
LIFE IN CHEKHOV 41
Valleri J. Hohman
3 THE ORGANIC AND THE POLITICAL: STANISLAVSKY’S
DILEMMA (IBSEN, TOLSTOY, GORKY) 62
Anna Muza
4 "BACK TO OSTROVSKY!" AND FORWARD TO SOCIALIST
REALISM: STANISLAVSKY’S ARDENT HEART (1926) AND
THE STAGING OF IDEOLOGY AT THE MOSCOW ART THEATRE 90
William D. Gunn
5 STANISLAVSKY AND THE AVANT-GARDE 121
Julia Listengarten
6 SILHOUETTE OF A DESTINY: THE LETTERS OF
STANISLAVSKY 149
Anatoly Smeliansky (translated by Arch Tait)
PART II
STANISLAVSKY THE ACTING TEACHER
7 STANISLAVSKY ON VOICE AND MOVEMENT: CONTEXTS,
CONCEPTS, AND CONTENT 182
Lissa Tyler Renaud
8 A SINGER PREPARES: STANISLAVSKY AND OPERA 218
Sharon Marie Carnicke and David Rosen
9 STANISLAVSKY’S SYSTEM AND WOMEN: A FEMINIST
READING OF NEW TRANSLATIONS 254
Rosemary Malague
PART III
STANISLAVSKY’S IMPACT ON THEORY
10 THE JOURNEY OF THE MOSCOW ART THEATRE AND ITS
DISCIPLES THROUGH EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES
(1906-1937): DISSEMINATION OF AN ACTING THEORY AND
WORK METHOD 281
Marie-Christine Autant-Mathieu (translated by Elizabeth Wautlet)
11 STANISLAVSKY, TOLSTOY, AND THE "LIFE OF THE HUMAN
SPIRIT"
Daniel Larlham 315
12 STANISLAVSKY’S SYSTEM, SENSE/EMOTION MEMORY,
AND PHYSICAL ACTION/ACTIVE ANALYSIS: AMERICAN
INTERPRETATIONS OF THE SYSTEM’S LEGACY 346
David Krasner
13 THE LEGACY OF STANISLAVSKY’S IDEAS IN
NON-REALISTIC THEATRE 379
Dennis Beck
14 STANISLAVSKY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE 415
W.B. Worthen
PART IV
STANISLAVSKY’S IMPACT ON PRACTICE
15 THE EFFECTS OF RUSSIAN AND SOVIET CENSORSHIP ON THE
PRACTICE OF STANISLAVSKY’S SYSTEM 442
Sharon Marie Carnicke
16 DECODING THE SYSTEM: FIRST STEPS 472
Katerina Kamotskaia and Mark Stevenson
17 IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH: STANISLAVSKY AND STRASBERG 506
Yasen Peyankov
18 STANISLAVSKY AND RAMACHARAKA: THE IMPACT OF YOGA
AND THE OCCULT REVIVAL ON THE SYSTEM 514
R. Andrew White
19 MY LIFE IN STANISLAVSKY 547
Austin Pendleton
20 "ACTIVE ANALYSIS—MORE ACTIVE THAN YOU KNOW":
STANISLAVSKY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE 552
Rhonda Blair
21 THREE ROADS CONVERGING: STANISLAVSKY, SUZUKI,
AND SITI 552
Will Bond
22 "HERE, TODAY NOW": ACTIVE ANALYSIS FOR THE 21ST
CENTURY 576
Bella Merlin
Contributors 611
Index page number
Biography
R. Andrew White is Associate Professor of Theatre at Valparaiso University, where he annually directs productions. He has an MFA in Acting from Carnegie Mellon University and the Moscow Art Theatre School, and has worked as an actor at a variety of theatres in the United States. In addition, his scholarship has appeared in edited works published by Routledge and Palgrave Macmillan, as well as in top American journals including Theatre Survey, TDR/The Drama Review, and New England Theatre Journal.
"White (Valparaiso Univ.) and Camicke (USC School of dramatic arts) bring together 22 thorough essays of about 20 pages, each with a bibliography...it is fascinating to read how each contributor discovered Stanislavsky's work and interprets it. Combining scholarly research and professional theater experience, this book reveals an intriguing account of, and debate about, the past and present and also projects into the future. Summing Up: Recommended." - J Toma/in, San Francisco State University in CHOICE
