Konstantin Stanislavski was a Russian director who transformed
theatre in the West with his contributions to the birth of Realist
theatre and his unprecedented approach to teaching acting. He lived
through extraordinary times and his unique contribution to the arts
still endures in the twenty-first century. He established the
Moscow Art Theatre in 1898 with, among other plays, the premiere of
Chekhov's The Seagull. He also survived revolutions, lost his
fortune, found wide fame in America, and lived in internal exile
under Stalin's Soviet Union.
Before writing his classic manual on acting, Stanislavski began
writing an autobiography that he hoped would both chronicle his
rich and tumultuous life and serve as a justification of his
aesthetic philosophy. But when the project grew to 'impossible'
lengths, his publisher (Little, Brown) insisted on many cuts and
changes to keep it to its deadline and to a manageable length. The
result was a version published in English in 1924, which
Stanislavski hated and completely revised for a Soviet edition that
came out in 1926.
Now, for the first time, translator Jean Benedetti brings us
Stanislavski's complete unabridged autobiography as the author
himself wanted it - from the re-edited 1926 version. The text, in
clear and lively English, is supplemented by a wealth of photos and
illustrations, many previously unpublished.
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