
The Madness Behind ‘The Method’
Decoder Ring
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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