Constantin Stanislavski was born on January 17th 1863, in Moscow.
             Stanislavski evolved his own system of preparing plays which resulted
             After he finished school, Stanislavski did not like the melodramatic
             style of acting which was popular in Russia and throughout the rest
             of the world. Stanislavski met with a successful playwright and teacher
             of theatre, called Vladimir Nemitovich - Danchenko to discuss ways of
             changing Russian theatre. They met on June 22, 1897. After this
             meeting they formed the Moscow Art Theatre, which was established
             with the aim of finding new truth and realism in theatre.
             In 1906 he began to develop a system for training actors. He was
             also working as an actor and a director at this time. In 1913 he set
             up an experimental theatre designed to develop acting techniques,
             On October 29, 1928, Stanislavski had a heart attack. This forced
             him to give up acting, but he was able to concentrate on directing,
             teaching, and writing for the rest of his life.
             His method had a scientific approach and was developed over many
             years of trial and error. It requires an actor to experience the feeling
             of living the life of another person. The basis of his approach was
             that actors must believe everything that was happening on stage.
             Stanislavski made this possible by teaching actors to recall their own
             feelings and experiences. It aims first at getting the actor to arouse the
             emotions they have felt in the past. This can then be transformed into
             the character they are portraying.
             Observation was another important aspect of Stanislavski's teaching. He
             thought it helped actors to learn more about people and their
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