The Origins of the Stanislavski System

The origins of the Stanislavski System are in naturalism, positivism, Marxism, photography, Darwin, electricity, and realism. There is no one technique of acting and before Stanislavski there was no system at all. He created a system of training wherein actors would research the situation created by the script, break down the text according to their character's motivations and recall their own experiences, thereby causing actions and reactions according to these motivations. The actor would ideally make his motivations acting identical to those of the character in the script. …