ABSTRACT
Stanislavski’s teaching on the super-task and through action is fundamental to the process of the actor’s transformation into a character. Stanislavski asserts that the creative process of the actor’s transformation into a character is fundamentally dialectical, and elaborates on this statement in his teaching on the two perspectives – the perspective of the actor and of the role. The teaching on the perspectives shows us a way of reaching an understanding of the play and the role. It is organically linked to Stanislavski’s ideas on the actor’s super-super task. It teaches us to grasp the character holistically, to be able to subordinate their diverse individual traits to the super-super task. Stanislavski also told us that it was far from easy to learn how to identify the major events in a piece of dramatic writing, that the actors had to cultivate in ourselves a particular perspective that would teach us to separate the essential from the non-essential.
