My Life in Art – Constantin Stanislavsky (1945).

No one has had a greater influence on acting as we know it than Stanislavski. ‘His method’; – or interpretations of it – has become the central force determining almost every performance we see on stage or screen.

In My Life in Art Stanislavski recalls his theatrical career, from his early experiences in Rubinstein’s Russian Musical Society to his final triumphs with Chekhov at the Moscow Art Theatre.

His vivid account of his own most famous productions is interspersed with his anecdotes of the famous – of Kommisarjevksy, Tolstoy, Gorky, and of the Moscow visit of Isadora Duncan and Gordon Craig.