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The Madness Behind ‘The Method’

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The Moscow Art Theatre

In the late nineteenth century, theatre actors could be heard by their audiences but they had other constraints to overcome. Stanoski o the musi konstantin stanislowski was a wealthy merchant industrialist who oversees a textile empire. He and this playwright and critic, vladimir nemerovitch danchenko, co found a theatre called the moscow art theatre. And they want to completely revolutionized russian theatre practice. They want to embrace a more realistic performance style. The Moscow art theatre succeeds. A few years into its existence, while the company is on a wildly popular tour of europe, something simultaneously pedestrian and monumental happens.

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