6 Theatre studios and the development of Stanislavski's system.Stanislavski’s ideas have become accepted as common sense so that actors may use them without knowing that they do. Thanks to its promotion and development by acting teachers who were former students and the many translations of Stanislavski's theoretical writings, his system acquired an unprecedented ability to cross cultural boundaries and developed a reach, dominating debates about acting in the West. "The best analysis of a play", Stanislavski argued, "is to take action in the given circumstances." Minimising at-the-table discussions, he now encouraged an "active representative", in which the sequence of dramatic situations are improvised. Later, Stanislavski further elaborated the system with a more physically grounded rehearsal process that came to be known as the "Method of Physical Action". In rehearsal, the actor searches for inner motives to justify action and the definition of what the character seeks to achieve at any given moment (a "task"). It mobilises the actor's conscious thought and will in order to activate other, less-controllable psychological processes-such as emotional experience and subconscious behaviour-sympathetically and indirectly. His system cultivates what he calls the "art of experiencing" (with which he contrasts the " art of representation"). Stanislavski's system is a systematic approach to training actors that the Russian theatre practitioner Konstantin Stanislavski developed in the first half of the twentieth century.
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A diagram of Stanislavski's system, based on his "Plan of Experiencing" (1935), showing the inner ( left) and outer ( right) aspects of a role uniting in the pursuit of a character's overall "supertask" ( top) in the drama.