An interesting take from article in literature
“[…]Sulerzhitsky and Demidov stand beside the more familiar “figures of Meyerhold, Vakhtangov and Mikhaïl Chekhov and, in their vicinity, Sushkevich, Boleslavsky, Birman, Uspenskaya and Giatsintova from the efflorescent First Studio.[..] Apparently the highly regarded people that knew how to teach the system were people like Sulerzhitsky, Demidov, Vakhtangov, MIkhail Chekhov, Meyerhold (as you notice all […]
“In the Beginning Was the Word”
On July 21, 1938, shortly before Stanislavski’s death, a manuscript of An Actor Prepares was brought to him at Leontyevsky for his approval before printing. Lying on a couch in his spacious office—divided by Swedish bookshelves, behind which the “medical department” monitoring his health was concealed—he was handed unbound pages of the future book. “When […]
Vakhtangov on Scene Analysis
“Vakhtangov invited us for the next rehearsal to rewrite our role so that the left side of the page was the author’s text, and the right side – a blank sheet of paper. The first rehearsal he devoted to dissecting the images [characters] in the play. I played the central role of Henry, a young […]
A bit of history
Nikolay Vasilyevich Demidov’s third book “The Art of Living on Stage” is a culmination of his forty years of theatrical and pedagogical work. Initially conceived as a single book, Demidov’s work expanded into a planned series of five books. Before his death in 1953, he completed three of these books, while the remaining two existed […]
Peter Brook on the art of acting
Sometimes it’s about the company (ensemble) sometimes it’s about art, sometimes it’s about scales and sometimes it’s about our aim…meaning about a school, a method, a philosophy, a way of collective thinking. “It has long been recognized that without a permanent company (ensemble) few actors can thrive indefinitely. However it must also be faced that […]
