Stanislavsky and Female Actors

Women in Stanislavsky's Life and Art

Maria Ignatieva (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

140 Seiten

2008
University Press of America (Verlag)
978-0-7618-4103-6 (ISBN)

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Every single artistic endeavor in Stanislavsky's life was achieved in close collaboration with female partners. First, it was his own mother, Elizaveta Alekseyeva, who shaped his personality, and encouraged his exploration of theatre. Then it was his artistic mother, Glikeria Fedotova, who guided him through the ten years of his work. Then Maria Lilina, his wife, who became his best student, and later one of the best actresses of the Art Theatre. It would be impossible to understand Stanislavsky's development as an actor and director without his work with Maria Andreyeva, the "femme fatale" of turn of the century Russian theatre, or Olga Knipper, whom he directed and acted with for forty years. And near the end of his life, when Stanislavsky introduced the method of physical action (metod phizicheskix deistvii), another woman embraced his work, a young actress named Irina Rozanova. Stanislavsky and Female Actors is the exploration of Stanislavsky's artistic and personal relationship with the leading actresses of the Moscow Art Theatre. It seeks to portray their life-long artistic dialogue and offers a new biographical study of the previously unknown spheres of Stanislavsky's life, as well as the lives of the Moscow Art Theatre's principal actresses.

Maria Ignatieva, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre at Ohio State University, Lima campus. As a specialist in Stanislavsky and Russian theatre, Ignatieva has over 70 publications to her name in English and Russian. She has taught at the Moscow Art Theatre School Studio, Moscow State Institute for Theatrical Arts, and at the University of Helsinki.

Chapter 1. Stanislavsky's Mothers: At Home and in the Theatre
Chapter 2. The Wife: Maria Lilina
Chapter 3. Phenomenon: Maria Andreyeva
Chapter 4. The Best Partner: Olga Knipper
Chapter 5. Artistic Daughter: Olga Gzovskaya
Chapter 6. Artistic Granddaughter: Irina Rozanova
Chapter 7 Epilogue: In Search of his Ideal Actress

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.12.2008
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 231 mm
Gewicht	249 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher ► Kunst / Musik
ISBN-10	0-7618-4103-2 / 0761841032
ISBN-13	978-0-7618-4103-6 / 9780761841036
Zustand	Neuware