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The Laws of Normal Organic Life or Stanislavski Explained: Towards a scientific account of the subconscious in Stanislavski’s system

Connolly, Roy (2007) The Laws of Normal Organic Life or Stanislavski Explained: Towards a scientific account of the subconscious in Stanislavski’s system. Studies in Theatre and Performance, 27 (3). pp. 237-259. ISSN 14682761

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Abstract

This paper explores the relationship between Stanislavski’s ideas about the inward preparation of the actor and contemporary accounts of human behaviour derived from scientific psychology. The paper first sets out a summary of some of Stanislavski’s key ideas about the behavioural and psychological processes an actor might undergo when developing a role (i.e., the operational processes Stanislavski advocates in order to achieve a particular effect or outcome) and then examines how far current evidence supports the relationship between cause and effect that Stanislavski describes. In doing so, the paper places particular emphasis on Stanislavski’s attempts to activate nonconscious processes in the actor as a means of confronting what he calls ‘forced, conventional untruthfulness’ in stage presentation.

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Depositing User: Roy Connolly

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Item ID: 1151
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1386/stap.27.3.237_1
ISSN: 14682761
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/1151
Official URL: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Arti...

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Date Deposited: 11 Nov 2011 14:35
Last Modified: 02 Jul 2019 09:04

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Author: Roy Connolly

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Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries > School of Art and Design

Subjects

Performing Arts > Drama

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