Stanislavski sought to create a "sense of truth" in his productions - Explain what he meant by the term and how he attempted to create this truth through rehearsal.

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Stanislavski sought to create a “sense of truth” in his productions. Explain what he meant by the term and how he attempted to create this truth through rehearsal.

Stanislavski said there were two kinds of truth, the first is ‘the one created automatically and on the plane of actual fact’ and the second ‘the scenic type, which is equally truthful but originates on the plane of imaginative and artistic fiction.’ The first kind of truth is created in subconsciously in real life. An example of this truth was the actors were searching for a lost purse, they didn’t know the director was watching them but he said they acted with truth. The actors were asked to put the purse back in the same place and repeat the exercise this time it wasn’t truthful. The actors argued that this was because the first time it was necessary and reality where the second time it was forced and a ‘false imitation.’  

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   By using “given circumstances” scenic truth can be created and therefore the acting becomes true and believable. They can also use emotional memory to recall experiences so the acting becomes real and believable. The actor must believe in the given circumstances; through this belief she or he will be able to function at a high level of involvement (INSPIRATION). The goal throughout is a quest for truth ‘. . . it is necessary for the actor to develop to the highest degree his imagination, a childlike naïveté and trustfulness, an artistic sensitivity to truth and to the truthful in his ...

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