Theatrical Practitioners: Konstantin Stanislavski System
Stanislavski's principle theory of acting was that of psychological realism. In other words, acting should be an art that teaches an actor how to consciously produce natural action; it must teach the actor "how to awaken consciously her subconscious creative self for its superconscious organic creativeness," and how to consciously create action that is usually subconsciously expressed as a result of conscious thought. He discovered that there is no inner experience without outer physical expression, but if an actor on stage performs only physical actions, this violates the psycho-physical union and her performance is mechanical and dead. Therefore Stanislavski protested against "mechanical" acting, exploitation of art, bathos, the art of representation, "theatricality" and the "star"......
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