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Article: "Adieu, adieu, adieu. Remember me": Konstantin Stanislavsky and Irina Rozanova.
- Article from:
- Theatre History Studies
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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In order to understand Shakespeare's true intentions, one must dig and uncover them underneath the dead letters, and thus restore his thoughts, his vision, his imagery, and his feelings, along with all subtexts buried in written text. (1)
In 1983, as a master's student at the Moscow State Institute for Theatrical Arts (GITIS), I completed my research paper for the seminar in Russian Theatre History: The paper was about Serafima Birman, the renowned Russian Soviet grotesque actress and the faithful student of Stanislavsky. The available documents of the First Studio and the Moscow Art Theatre-2 including Birman's letters, were given to me at the Moscow Art Theatre ...