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Are Stanislavski and Brecht Commensurable?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 October 2022

Eric Bentley
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Abstract

“How does Brecht’s system differ from Stanislavski’s?” I have often heard this question asked, sometimes in exactly these words, and probably we shall all live to see the question appear in much this form on college examination papers. I recall, too, that as a young admirer of Brecht’s, nearly twenty years ago, I myself described an actor in one of his plays as having gone “beyond Stanislavski.” Will the acting profession soon be divided between Method actors and Brechtians?

Type
Research Article
Information
Tulane Drama Review , Volume 9 , Issue 1: Stanislavski and America: 1 , Fall 1964 , pp. 69 - 76
Copyright
Copyright © 1964 The Tulane Drama Review

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References

1 Martin Esslin, Brecht: The Man and His Work (New York: Doubleday, 1961), pp. 179-80.

2 From Theaterarbeit (Dresden, 1952), p. 413. Translated by John Willett, Brecht on Theatre (New York: Hill and Wang, 1964), pp. 236-37. Reprinted by permission of the publishers.