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Stanislavsky in Focus brilliantly examines the history and actual premises of Stanislavskys 'System', separating myth from fact with forensic skill. The first edition of this now classic study showed conclusively how the 'System' was gradually transformed into the Method, popularised in the 1950s by Lee Strasberg and the Actors Studio. It looked at the gap between the original Russian texts and what most English-speaking practitioners still imagine to be Stanislavskys ideas. Read more