Stanislavski and Naturlistic acting

Our performance must be naturalistic because this was how the play was meant to be performed and what the exam criteria request. Actors performing naturalism must create a perfect illusion of reality through a range of dramatic and theatrical strategies and the overall objective of naturalism is to show an audience how the play would look in real life. Our BTEC level three drama class will be learning about Stanislavski naturalistic techniques to add them into our extracts in an attempt to enhance our emotional reactions and to improve our overall performance, Stanislavsky was a famous Russian actor and director that revolutionised theatre, Stanislavski believed that actors should be their characters and should be able to relate their mind-set. In the same session we discussed method acting, method acting is where an actor applies his/her characters features to real life and in body the character fully, Stanislavski was born in 1863 and died in 1938. He created something called “Stanislavski's system” containing techniques that can be used to draw believable emotion from actors, these techniques include

·         Emotional memory

·         The magic what if

·         Motivation

·         Objectives

I will be learning about what these techniques consist of and how I can apply them to my character in order to achieve a successful naturalistic performance.