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Stanislavsky on the Art of the Stage: translated with an introduction on Stanislavsky's 'System' by David Magarshack offers a unique insight into the craft and theory of Konstantin Stanislavsky, including his posthumous work The System and Methods of Creative Art.

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Konstantin Stanislavsky (1863-1938) was a Russian actor and theatre director. His innovative contribution to modern European and American realistic acting has remained at the core of mainstream performance training. Stanislavsky organized his techniques into a coherent and usable system, which acquired an unprecedented ability to cross cultural boundaries and developed an international reach, dominating scholarship about acting in the West.