ABSTRACT
There are many excellent books putting Stanislavsky’s ‘system’ into practice (see Selected Bibliography). So in this chapter, I’ve chosen to craft the exercises around three different areas: Introduction to ‘round-the-table analysis’ and Stanislavsky’s ‘system’; Introduction to the Method of Physical Actions; and Introduction to Active Analysis. The first section is a mixture of devised exercises and some of Stanislavsky’s own, while the second and third sections begin by analysing Stanislavsky’s rehearsal practices to try and piece together some practical strategies.
