performance received world here in moscow why do you choose this particular playing well because we thought it was one of the best productions we've done in our school and it was done with this group of actors last winter in february and it was so well received in san francisco i think it's a very innovative and inventive production and i thought that it was really a piece of art not just a good student production and last night it seemed to be very well received they they were called back for a second and third curtain call. by the audience but i think it combines music and dance as well as the text of the play so it's not told in a completely straightforward realistic way. in europe where i very mentioned doing in the beginning of the program the city was actually the only american. american theater school invited to moscow why were they choose you well

i was told when they first wrote me that they had that you were the best you know there was never again that but i think you have a lot. you know i have a colleague who remain in who'd been working a lot in moscow who called me and said i would like to recommend you for this do you think a city would want to go and i said yes i think if we got an invitation we'd love to go but i know that we were when an atoll is smelly and ski wrote he said that he had heard very good things about us and i do think that our i do think from conversations i've had since i've gotten here that what we're doing and our training right now is simpatico as we say with with things that are going on at the moscow art theater i think we were a good school to invite it's interesting that you mention he heard you and he was going to you to. watching him and sending some somebody to at least look well. so

you think my colleague who recommended us who he'd been working with for six or seven years was able to speak in detail about so in effect he had had somebody come and see that specifically for the first of all somebody who knew us well it's like you know you know you know the old jews joke going. i hate stravinsky's and you. are are not always nice. so i guess somebody was saying the word i was going to you know so i think that's exactly what i thought it was you rather well. to me about the stolen stuff skew system in america whenever i talk to anybody probably for from new york to hollywood but not you know the status landscape as to why why do you think it is it's so popular in the united states well i think serve there a couple of things but when you say the stanislaw school system it's a pretty broad term he wrote three or four books and the interesting thing is that some teachers draw all of their they're teaching from his first book and there are

things there is he put forth in his first book that by the third book well he's moved far away from him so if you have a teacher who's drawing private early from the later books you have very different pedagogy then in the early books i do think though that i mean a lot of what i teach is an acting teacher comes from status lasky. he was very interested in developing the inner life of the actor and then how that inner life is expressed through behavior and through physical character and. how imagination mixes with memory it's a holistic system so those things that have to do with the inner life if an actor does not have a very well developed inner life he's not going to be very interesting on camera or on you know even the who's not really dumb person i mean someone actually you know have to be an intelligence in our life at the same thing you know you could be maybe not very smart but have an. enter

a feeling like rather than thoughts that can be very interesting on camera i'm sure you and i can talk about well let's slow learn a bit more about the status lasky any famous acting method in the report now by spotlights he learned the demeanor of. these photos showing a young man intoxicated by theatre putting on different costumes take an impressive poses this is constantine stanislavsky in his twenty's the offspring are one of the richest families in russia he had more interest in acting than in his family business he described acting as the greatest pleasure and the greatest torture and throughout his life try to understand how to achieve authenticity on stage the system eventually turned into a complex method for producing realistic characters. but you might see what i'm offering you this is important i shut you off immediately from the plane of acting and i put you in the plane of your life and your memories your strong there you

have huge material there the system went beyond the boundaries of russian theatre it was taken up by some of the most influential act and teachers in the united states including lease tress berg stanislavski is highest praise was just two words i believe the phrase gave the name to a price for act in the chief months which has been a nearly awarded in moscow and meryl streep and jack nicholson are among the recipients. stanislav he has always been an indispensable part of the russian culture but these days the feeling genius comes alive the moscow theater which studies must be founded is now celebrating the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of his birth was an international acting festival stage personalities from around the globe gathered in moscow to perform in tribute to someone who truly revolutionized acting. was. how did the

sternness loose stones of skew system actually conquer america because when i asked people did they start talking about it because of it is that right yes michael chekhov's work is important too but he's michael chekhov is comes after stance laughs he actually and in some way he was his student at one point and broke off and started to do his own system which is not uncommon the feature that best known is the psychological gesture that something that michael chekhov really develop because i always hear that michael chertoff was was the the source through which the third came i don't know that that's no i don't really let's not how i understand i think liz strasberg and stella adler were the two acting teachers in the united states and they were both actors admittedly and they each had experiences with stannis lask in russia and brought or learned things about the

system least strasberg i think not from status lasky but stella adler came to russia and met status last king it's been a long time speaking to him and then she brought back her notes and began to teach directly from those any of the russian names i mean the names russian theatre the influence your well i would say michael chekhov is a huge and status lasky. and time chekhov's plays a huge influence and a huge teaching tool in in the united states teaching to oh absolutely not only the material i mean you have to you have to give the teaching to to to work with it but do they also teach the material you know one of the great artistic partnerships i think in western theatre is that event on chekhov and constantine stands lasky because i think in stanislaw ski check are found the director who could bring his plays to life and just in that clip we were just seeing with stanislaw skis interest and authenticity and. stage that's the kind of playwright the chap was who

his interest was in authentic characters authentic characterisation so the two go together if you want to teach standards lasky system chuff parts of great playwright to you what ago would have been. the only technique used to teach. you something or. i would say that everything some people say that was standard stuff that really did was codified the rule break rules of acting that were going on for centuries he just managed to put it down and know what better way than anybody else ever had i i think that we also draw on a french technique caulks mask or we draw on comedian work and clown work some of our voice work is from the british tradition so i think we're pretty attractive get a c.t. actually. the smith concert to directly out of the acting out of the american

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welcome back to the spot where the novel my guest on the show today is millicent smith concert she director and head of acting of the american consumer truth

theater in san francisco melissa welcome back to spar my many hollywood stars many hollywood actors movie stars and also taught in the stanislaw of ski system and apparently there's a great difference between acting on stage and acting it in the movies so if we continue to talk about standards lasky does it mean that this russian really designed such a universal thing the good girls food yes i think it is a true get to it so that. holistic system movie i think because it has so much to do with the development of the individual stem the stuff they had a chart of all the different aspects of his system and at the bottom of the chart they were numbered the different creatures on the bottom the chart is number one work on yourself that's the number one thing in his system and you know on camera if you don't if you're not telling the truth on camera. the camera doesn't lie and

on stage you can get away with some things that you can't get away with on camera you have to project out on stage you have to let the camera go in. steps lasky system because it addresses the body the imagination the mind the memory the emotions dresses everything if you work are all those things you can do it all so so so you know when you're on camera that's very interesting you have to either told the truth or you have to believe in your lines exactly you know you have i guess that's true and staged you know but i think the interesting thing about the camera the best definition i've ever heard between about the difference between the two kinds of acting is that when you're on stage you want to think about reaching out to the audience but when you're in front of a camera you want to think about letting the camera go inside you you know this is a thought about it a lot i mean i've been acting many people say that that even that there's an old

russian word rotting meaning meaning being will learn true in middle way being so trying to be somebody else but it looks as if a real and to a good actor in order to deliver something something some piece of history to the public he has to lie he has to pretend to try to really deliver what he thinks is right is the true will this is this so this sounds awkward but but is it true well i would put it slightly differently. i know what i'll tell my students is that there's more than one truth then i just want to through you know you know many truths and when you're working on a role you have to find what in yourself lets you identify with the character and their circumstances so that you can one of stanislaw skin is iconic phrases is as if so if if the story involves a woman jump caught in a fire in

a building and having needing to escape and you the actor of never been in a building in a fire you don't have to have been there you have to be able to imagine what it's as if what would happen to me maybe i'm not afraid of fire it's as if i met a great height or it's as if i might this might be my second piece by you know you know you know is that that's what it is how do you think it was i mean if you're just straight forward like if you see what you do for you on lost in theater on television it is a listen to you i mean if you really want to see the thing right i think i mean this may be true goodness this is not what people always want to hear from you well but as an actor you do have a script yet but then you know yes i suppose as an announcer a newscaster or something then you have to find that the same thing not apply i think. is it more prestigious if we can continue comparing movies and here it was more prestigious for an american actor to turn it in there

on stage or in the movies well if there's movement and probably more money has more money and so for the america and this is the also the culture of celebrity but many actors make movies and then sometimes go back to the stage meryl streep was mentioned earlier is one of those actresses who has gone back to the stage and done things in the very nearly two minute happens happen all the time in russia go back and you know the same actors they they continue playing in the theater then make a. the movies are the same turning going back and so forth i mean it in america does not in this way you either in hollywood or broadway yeah well i don't know if it's either or so i think there was a period where it was either or right now actually i think you can find movie stars going to broadway to do things maybe not all of them not all of them but you know it's part of it is does moscow have a plot i mean not moscow does russia have a hollywood you know los angeles what hollywood and los angeles says and then

there's new york and russian hundred isn't moscow so so it's all in the same place certainly it's not all in the same place in the united states but when cinema was invented when people started shooting movies especially the talkies and the koreans and. everybody predicted it's going to kill theater now and they didn't know the save. then they said the television is going to kill both men now they're saying internet is going to kill everything the internet is going to kill television theory movies and paper resume it's did do you think this is true do you think that something may kill theory you know no the theater has been around since ancient times i think part of why is because it's a communal experience and i think that there are that and i think the internet technology it's all great. but i think people still need communal experiences what kind of theater will be done due to very though the the social networks are

actually replacing life communication no i don't i don't feel that way i think there's the social media are very useful i think that they cast a wide net and you can be in touch with all kinds of people but it's also somewhat superficial it's not the same as a live conversation i've been under certainly refused to switch off the balance in theatres i know because i don't need to be on line you know and i don't know if it's because they need to be on life and i think they're just currently entranced with the text but i don't know that that means they will always be i do think it's a challenge right now i agree with you that it's a challenge but i think people still need it part of what i say that is there at least in the united states right now there's all kinds of. what we call pop up theater flash theater and this is there that might suddenly happen on a street corner you know i'm lame i just start to have it in the middle of traffic it's amazing to me crowds of people stop to watch this and then they stand and talk

to each other about it when it's funny i'm going to go the streets it's all over europe and you know how london i resigned to the top and hagan you can see that overturning especially the clowns and you know exactly what you see i think some right now i think that clown theater and mass theater are having an ascendancy ascendant but i think that will change again. what about the modern american theatregoer because i have a mask because in russia it is becoming more and more fashionable young people to go to theaters how wonderful really there are more and more of them go and it's become so trendy you know i see there have you seen that it. isn't the same in the states or the more like elderly intellectuals i don't know if they're intellectuals but i do think that in the states i can't say that i think that we're on the when we do to get more young people to go to the theater there are that i think there are places where young people are going to the theater but at the but i've noticed from traveling in europe and here that it's different in europe there are more

young people in the theater than in america why we are the home of rock n roll and there's the rock concert where you will find more young people we don't aren't also baseball. baseball fan i think for most of the advocates for growth but i tell you i never understood baseball until the they took me to a match ten she's there's nothing to. fear and it's interactive very interactive so you'll find that you know young people there but you know that the theater tradition is much younger our country is younger the tradition is younger the american musical is where it's where i think most american theater goers like to go to a musical they want to be entertained they don't necessarily want to see a serious play and. that's a generalization but i don't think it was true they do when they want to do the thinking. is that the reason why psychics is so important in the states because because if they want to do some thinking they can. if americans want to just you

know i think americans in hershey know we pick a pill we'll pick a book from the shelf instead of going to a psychic we page just to young americans are very far from the show but i also think americans i think science is important to americans and history is important to americans. i think. and i think that music over theater sometimes has a point there has always been a stand out between between classical theater as you said a from coming from the haitian times. and modern theory modern trends modern schools of and that's not did you think this is good do you think this is this competition is healthy for them of course i think all competition is healthy for an art i mean i think that it it should be if you get pushed one way and then you get pushed another i don't think there's any one answer. but should we don't believe in the old the old productions that are becoming sort of now to well i think there are productions that can become out of date you know there are production to the revived for thirty forty years.

that can be out of date but i don't know the place necessarily the greeks are still there's a production of electrical in on the open at our theater in san francisco right now i think that those plays. they're relevant a particular time so for example if you get if you get with views on the internet that this is old time i mean this is out we don't like you this is good this is this is does that mean you have to dump it to make something new or you have to try to explain to the audience or you that i think you have to try to leave it alone well it's made me come not exactly i think you can put it on the shelf for a while but i don't think it's dump it you know and i don't think that there aren't that that there are new players that are absolutely outstanding in black and white movies i mean you know exactly we still watch black and white movies right and we try coloring them and we stuff that didn't work we didn't want to melissa smith

talking to us on spotlight thank you thank you very much for being with us reminder that melissa smith is the conservatory director and had about acting at the american conservatory theater in san francisco so for now from all of us here if you want to have yourself spotlight you can always do you want spotlight will be back with more free time comments on what's going on in and outside russia until then faded arctic. sigrid laboratory kirby was able to build the world's most sophisticated robot which on sick leave doesn't give

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