What Was The Importance Of Stanislavski's

'Remember there are no small parts, only small actors.

Stanislavski was a man who thought that an actor should not just read the lines that are infront of him, but should become the character they are inhabiting and make him real.

Stanislavski’s real name was Konstantin Sergeyevich Alexeyev but he adopted the stage name of Stanislavski in 1884. Stanislavski’s real name was Konstantin Sergeyevich Alexeyev but he adopted the stage name of Stanislavski in 1884. Although not a very good actor himself, as a dicector he belived that playing a part of a character should be more beliveble and should have a story behind him/her with a background for the actor to get a good feelimg on why is the character like that making it more natural and realistic.

A method in Stanislavski's system was the 'Magical if' which was a method for a character to use emotion on stage through physical action, he use this teaching for his actors at the

A performance should be believable for an audience so that they may appear to the audience as truth. One of Stanislavski's methods for achieving the truthful pursuit of a character's emotion was his "Magic If." Actors were required to ask many questions of their characters and themselves. Through the "Magic If", actors were able to satisfy themselves and their characters' positions of the plot. One of the first questions they had to ask was, "What if I were in the same situation as my character?" Another variation on this is "What would I do if I found myself in this circumstance? The "magic if" allowed actors to transcend the confinements of realism by asking them what would occur "if" circumstances were different, or "if" the circumstances were to happen to them. By answering these questions as the character, the theatrical actions of the actors would be believable and therefore