Who was staniskavski?

Answer 1

Constantin Stanislavski was a Russian born theatre practitioner. He favoured method acting, insisting that the actors he worked with used emotions from personal memories in their performances to make plays more "real" for the audience. An interesting point is to comapre his style to the German practitioner Bertolt Brecht, who wanted the audience to become detached from the performances and would do this with techniques such as having his actors change costume on stage, or/and placing the stage in the centre of the audience in a "boxing Ring" fashion.

Stanislavski wanted the audience to experience the theatre in a "real" sense, feeling real emotions and connecting with the characters in the performances.