ABSTRACT
I am thinking of Meyerhold. What a genius director, the grandest of all who lived before us, and of all who exist today. His every production is a new theatre. His every production could produce an entire movement. Stanislavsky as a director is, of course, lesser than Meyerhold. Stanislavsky does not have an individuality. All of Stanislavsky’s productions are banal. The first period of Stanislavsky’s productions: imitating the Meiningen Company. The second: Chekhovian theatre. (During this period, the Meiningen principle was projected onto the inner essence of the role—the emotional experience.) It amounted to naturalism of the same kind. All naturalists equal each other, and a production staged by one of them can be easily taken for the production of the other. Meyerhold is original.
