The role of silence in the process of actor's upbringing (on the 150th anniversary of Konstantin Stanislavski's birthday) Cover Image

O roli milczenia w procesie wychowania aktora (w 150. rocznicę urodzin Konstantina Stanisławskiego)
The role of silence in the process of actor's upbringing (on the 150th anniversary of Konstantin Stanislavski's birthday)

Author(s): Magdalena Zaorska
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life, Philology
Published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Rusycytyczne
Keywords: Konstantin Stanislavski; theater; Stanislavski's School; anniversary; theory of drama; actor methodology

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the area, which embraces a widely understood concept of the silence in the process of actor’s upbringing according to the Stanislavski School. On the 150th anniversary of the Russian theatre coryphaeus’s birthday the author draws attention to the issue, that the methodological guidelines created by Stanislavski in so-called “system” are still up-to-date. Refferring to the experience of the Russian and Soviet theatrical thought she portrays how important the actor’s skill of the impletion of so-called spheres of silence with the organic psychophysical acting appears to be in the spectacle. In the article we are going to read also about the place which pause has taken in the history of Russian stage, and about the way the prominent theatre educators, the successors of Stanislavski’s thought, cultivated the study about “an inner monologue” and “a stream of inner visions”. In the final part of the article some example exercises which shape the skill of thinking on the stage and conducting of the inner monologue have been presented.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 148
  • Page Range: 106-119
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish