Stanislavsky – David Magarshack Alleen Vandaag

Konstantin Stanislavsky is one of the colossi not simply of Russian, but American and European theatre. The works of the creator of the Stanislavsky System — which later gave rise to the Method — have tended to shroud him in mystique, leading his followers to revere him as a saint and his detractors to dismiss him out of hand. David Magarshack’s clear eyed biography succeeds in presenting the man behind the System.