Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky: “I do not believe!” Only Mayakovsky’s expression about Lenin and the party can be compared with this combination. If you rephrase it a little, you get the following - you just need to hear two words about distrust of something, the name, patronymic and surname of the founder of the Moscow Art Theater named after him immediately sound in your head . Chekhov.
Phrase popularity
If a person does not know anything at all about this director, about his world-famous System, anyway he will easily add the first phrase to the second. Because "Stanislavsky" and "I do not believe" are twin brothers. Konstantin Alekseev (this is a real surname) used this biting phrase in the lessons of mastery and rehearsal of performances. The phrase did not make him famous, talent brought him recognition, she made him famous and quoted all over the world, outside the theater.
The memory of the director
Alekseevs - a surname known in tsarist Russia. Father is a large industrialist, cousin is the Moscow mayor, the family was related to the Tretyakovs and Mamontovs, well-known philanthropists. It was really the “color of Russia”, in which, as you know, there were no prophets of its own. One can only wonder how the representative of the nobility and the industrial elite managed to escape persecution. Nevertheless, he received all state awards, the title of academician and people's artist. Streets in dozens of cities are named after him, commemorative medals are published, there are prizes in his name - the MIFF award “I Believe. Konstantin Stanislavsky. " For several years, there are seasons of his name. These are theater festivals to which the best world performances are brought. The unforgettable phrase of people questioning something: “I do not believe, as Stanislavsky said,” became winged. Its first part, said separately, sounds rude and even insulting. But complete with the surname caresses the ear with tolerance and hints at the erudition of the interlocutor.
The foundation of the Moscow Art Theater
In 1898, at the age of thirty, Konstantin Sergeyevich, together with Nemirovich-Danchenko, founded the new Moscow Art Theater. Before them the question of the reformation of stage art raises sharply. And Stanislavsky begins to create his famous System, the purpose of which is to get the "truth of life" from the actors. The super-task, the main idea of this theory, required not to fulfill the role, but to fully get used to it. The evaluation of the actors' work in rehearsals was the phrase that Stanislavsky threw: "I do not believe it." Documentary shots of such a break-in role have been preserved. There is a rehearsal of the play “Tartuffe”, the last production of Konstantin Sergeyevich, and he gives advice to the theater actress V. Bendina, who plays Dorin, to lie on stage, as if she would lie in life. Unique frames. In the courtyard of 1938, the year of the death of the brilliant director. Even Nemirovich-Danchenko, with whom relations have been completely broken for many years (their friendship and hostility are very well described in M. Bulgakov’s “Theater Novel”), said the famous phrase: “Orphaned.” Stanislavsky died. "I do not believe" no one else said to the actors.
Secrets of Mastery
But the school remained, the System of Konstantin Sergeyevich remained, which formed the basis of Russian theatrical skill. Her postulates are fully described in the books “My Life in Art” and “The Work of an Actor on Myself”. The rehearsals of two famous Mkhatov’s performances themselves were described in detail by the talented theater actor Toporkov and are vivid documentary evidence of the director’s work with performers.
The play of not a single American actor can be compared in the intensity of passions and truthfulness with the skill of Russian artists, dead and alive, such as Plyatt, Popov, Makovetsky, Efremov. They just have other super tasks. On most series, both foreign and domestic, we are not talking at all. In this case, it’s even too lazy to pronounce the phrase: “As Stanislavsky said,“ I don’t believe ””, because it still refers to “high art”, the actors play good or bad.
Extraordinary giftedness of Stanislavsky
As a talented person, Konstantin Sergeyevich was talented in everything. In his youth, he worked for a rather long time in his father’s factory and rose to the rank of director. The products manufactured by the enterprise were not far from the world of beauty - they produced the finest gold and silver wire - the basis for the production of brocade. All evenings were given to amateur play in the Alekseev Theater. Love for acting, as is obvious, and Stanislavsky’s talent came from his grandmother, French artist Marie Varley. Later, Konstantin Sergeyevich studied plastic and vocals, he sang well. One of the best musical theaters in the country bears his name and the name Nemirovich-Danchenko. The famous talented theorist and reformer of stage art, Stanislavsky was a very gifted actor. A number of his famous roles entered the world piggy bank of acting (for example, The Old Man). He was noticed from the first professional productions. However, in 1916 he completely ceased artistic activity. An exception was made only once - forcibly, on tour of the theater abroad. For all, the abrupt cessation of performances on stage, and after brilliant rehearsals, including the general, remained a mystery. This was the role of Rostanev from the "Village Stepanchikovo" Dostoevsky, on which he worked for a year. We have to assume that Konstantin Sergeyevich first uttered such a phrase that was later known, turning to himself: "Stanislavsky, I do not believe it." But the director and scientific work he did not leave until the end of his life. After his death, one of the best theaters in the world remained, his famous System, his school of theater skills, talented students and brilliant books. And the phrase remained forever, a symbol of doubt in something or distrust - "I do not believe."