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In theatre, naturalism and realism refer specifically to the representation of real life on stage, using believable characters, narrative action and plot, to mimetically holding up a mirror to nature.
In this film, Frayn talks about the nature of live performance, the role of the audience in creating the performance, about creating characters and writing historical drama.
In which Prof. Smeliansky outlines the importance of Stanislavsky’s work in the history of Russian theatre, including Stanislavsky’s relation to Chekhov, Gordon Craig, Meyerhold and others.
This video presentation features playwright and director Oriza Hirata’s
concept of robot theatre. Making Robot Theatre: An interview with Oriza Hirata of
Tokyo-based Seinendan.
This interview sees Jean Benedetti discussing some of the main precepts of Stanislavsky’s work, including Stanislavsky’s relation to Chekhov, Shchepkin, Meyerhold and others.
The Stanislavski Centre Annual Lecture sees a major international figure lecturing based upon their own expertise in the field of Stanislavsky studies every year – in this case, Anatoly Smeliansky.
Bella Merlin’s practical presentation uses Stanislavsky’s Six Fundamental Questions to contextualise a demonstration of ‘practice as research’ riffing off his work, as well as Maria Knebel’s.
An interview lasting almost two hours, covering the extraordinary breadth of Mike Alfreds’s experience as a theatre director working across different decades, cultures and continents.
Actor, director, teacher, author of six books and pioneer of ‘Active Analysis’, Maria Osipovna Knebel is arguably the most influential figure in 20th-century Russian theatre, after Stanislavski.
Modernist theatre includes works considered as naturalist, symbolist, surrealist, futurist, Dadaist or expressionist, by writers such as Ibsen and Strindberg, created between the 1880s and the 1930s.