Stanislavsky Konstantin Sergeivich

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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Date: 19960101
Author:PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND

Stanislavsky Konstantin Sergeivich [ Konstantin Sergeivich Alexeyev ] (1863–1938), Russian actor, director, and teacher of acting. He had already had some experience in the theatre when in 1898 he founded with Nemirovich-Danchenko the Moscow Art Theatre . In its first productions— Alexei Tolstoy's Tsar Feodor Ivanovich (1898), Ostrovsky's The Snow Maiden (1900), Leo Tolstoy's The Power of Darkness (1902), Julius Caesar (1903)—Stanislavsky put into practice the theories he had formulated under the influence of the Meininger company , and out of his own experience. ...

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