ABSTRACT
The considerable impact of the Moscow Art Theatre, especially in Europe and North America, has largely been on the development of acting theory through the writings of Konstantin Stanislavsky, one of the Theatre’s founders. However, although the Art Theatre began life in 1898, Stanislavsky did not concern himself seriously with acting theory until almost ten years later. A great deal of his theoretical work was written down during the 1930s, when his involvement in day-to-day theatre operations had ceased and the Theatre’s own traditions were increasingly moribund.
