My life is in art. In disputes about Stanislavsky

In the history of Russian culture, there are many names of great artists who make up the glory and pride of the nation. Among them, one of the most honorable places rightfully belongs to the great director, teacher of several artistic generations, actor, great reformer of theatrical art K.S. Stanislavsky. This outstanding theorist of the theater not only inspiredly created, created wonderful samples of theatrical art, but also deeply comprehended the process of stage creativity. His aesthetic views, the directorial innovation, the system of realistic acting, developed by him had a huge impact on the development of world theater culture. The classic work of Stanislavsky “My Life in Art”, published in many languages ​​of the world, has become a table book for each employee and a theater lover. It summarizes the experience of several artistic generations and formulated the most important provisions of modern theatrical aesthetics.
Vladimir Nikolaevich Prokofiev - one of the most prominent researchers and propagandists of the heritage of K.S. Stanislavsky, a famous Russian and Soviet theater expert, art historian. Since 1950, he led the Research Commission for the Study and Publishing of the Heritage of K.S. Stanislavsky and V.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko. V.N. Prokofiev is an editor, compiler and work of the works of K.S. Stanislavsky, as well as the author of a number of articles and books dedicated to this great reformer of the theater.
The book “In the disputes about Stanislavsky” was born in the atmosphere of the Ophies Theater discussions about the heritage of Stanislavsky, held in the 1950s-1960s. It contains a dispute about the ways of developing the theater, the struggle of different views and directions in stage art is revealed. The author considers the ratio of the Stanislavsky school with the concept of the conditional theater of Meyerhold, theatricality of Vakhtangov, the theory of the epic theater of Brecht. Speaking against the vulgarization of the ideas of Stanislavsky, V.N. Prokofiev reveals the progressive meaning of his teaching