Working Presents: The Madness Behind 'The Method'
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Theatre in the Late Nineteenth Century
Theatre actors in the late nineteenth century could be heard by their audiences, but they had other constraints to overcome. Stanisowski stanslovski of the moski konstantin stanislowski was a wealthy merchant industrialist who oversees a textile empire. He and this playwright and critic, vladimir nemerovitch danshenko, co found a theat caled the moscow art theatre. And they want a completely revolutionized russian theatre practice. They want to embrace a more realistic performance style. Think of charliey chaplin. We can't hear him, but we still need to understand him,. His emotions play across his face with so much clarity
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