Stanislavski

Or Stan·i·slav·sky

[stan-uh-slahv-skee, -slahf-, stuh-nyi-slahf-skyee]

noun

1. Konstantin Konstantin Sergeevich Alekseev, 1863–1938, Russian actor, producer, and director.

Example Sentences

I studied theater — Stanislavski — and English literature before I embarked on my music career, which was still being creative with words.

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Roberts’ private and public lives converged, as if he were using Stanislavski’s sense memory in reverse, conjuring up weird scenes from his films as material for his personal use.

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Yet one of the foremost champions of “An Enemy of the People” was none other than Konstantin Stanislavski, whose portrayal of Dr. Stockmann at a time of revolutionary upheaval in Russia informed his understanding of how an actor intuitively creates a role even in a politically charged drama.

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He had written a show about the Moscow Art Theater’s 1923 tour of the United States with its director, Konstantin Stanislavski, and was planning to have a Russian translation presented by the company’s modern leader at a performance space that Stanislavski had built on the grounds of his family’s factory.

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So, when Nelson wrote “Our Life in Art” — a nod to Stanislavski’s book “My Life in Art” — in fall 2020, he recruited Volokhonsky to translate it.

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