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My name is Cecil Plaige. I came to Russia in 2000
I graduated from the Russian Academy of Theater Arts (GITIS), GITIS is famous for its Stanislavsky system
The Russian system is highly rated. I know, for example, that in America it's held in very high esteem
But that doesn't mean that everyone who has studied in Russia is a true expert on system
I believe that the system itself, involving textual analysis, is important
After all, how can you play a role if you don't understand what it's about?
You can't just walk out on stage and expect to get under the character's skin
You can't accomplish this "parcour" without Stanislavsky
It depends on the actor. There's a tendency to think things over if you have too much information
Besides, you can't play every role
But it's better to know and not use than to not know in the first place
It's essential to understand that people back then lived together — it was a community
They lived and breathed theater, allowing themselves months to get into a role
Now there's no time. So you can't take a stepwise approach
Because the partners don't know each other as well as they did in the past
Now there's a very rigid division between the old academic walls
And repertoires and something completely new — theater as a project, media-product
Modern theatre is no longer a novelty, not a place anymore
Where dirty people badmouth each other and take off their clothes and so on...