ABSTRACT

The author principal and deepest bow is to all of them. People may say that what unites comrades in art, pupils, and those who share his ideas is the "Stanislavski System". He have devoted all my activity in the theatre not to the creating of some new art invented by me, but only to the most detailed, painstaking study of the creative nature of the person-artist in other actors, in my students, in amateurs, in musicians and singers. Since the time when we were together in Capri and had the energy to plough through his initial notes, his attempts to wield a pen in an effort to set down something in the nature of a Grammar of Acting. In every theatre that has sprung from the Moscow Art Theatre, this system has been transformed into something different, new even contrasting. Human nature is infinitely varied, therefore its laws will give rise to innumerable varieties and trends in art.