Stanislavski’s system – wikipedia

[Listening to Eva de Hullu on Perceptual Control Theory at the SCiO mini-conference today, and saw this tweet: https://twitter.com/EricLeonardis/status/1839749497838297237

Eric Leonardis  @EricLeonardis

tfw you realize that Stanislavski’s method acting system is actually an embodied systems theory, making Marlin Brando the architect of embodied cybernetics

And… yep.]

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A diagram of Stanislavski‘s system, based on his “Plan of Experiencing” (1935), showing the inner (left) and outer (right) aspects of a role uniting in the pursuit of a character’s overall “supertask” (top) in the drama.[1]

Stanislavski’s system is a systematic approach to training actors that the Russian theatre practitioner Konstantin Stanislavski developed in the first half of the twentieth century. His system cultivates what he calls the “art of experiencing” (with which he contrasts the “art of representation“).[2] It mobilises the actor’s conscious thought and will in order to activate other, less-controllable psychological processes—such as emotional experience and subconscious behaviour—sympathetically and indirectly.[3] In rehearsal, the actor searches for inner motives to justify action and the definition of what the character seeks to achieve at any given moment (a “task”).[4]

Stanislavski’s system – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislavski%27s_system