Here’s an interview I did with John Freedman at the WordBRIDGE Playwrighting lab in June. It’s a look forward to my January (2011) production of “Flying” by Olga Mukhina. More on that soon.
My friend asked why we never hear about Stanislavsky’s obsession with Yoga and its central place in his System. Short answer: The USSR’s Communist Government rejected the existence of a spiritual realm. Thus Stanislavsky talked about his System in non-spiritual terms, using codes to get his point across.
In America the System was distorted and a Method derived from emotions arose. Only a few of Stanislavsky’s close collaborators understood the System and “Stanislavsky’s relentless examination of the spiritual component in acting” (quote from Sharon Carnicke’s Stanislavsky in Focus, 2nd Ed).
