Stanislavski: Communion

“If communication between persons is important in life, it is ten times more so on the stage.”

This chapter talks about communication between the actors on stage (to each other) and the actors to the audience. The quote above sums up the chapter pretty well. I didn’t fully understand this chapter but I did get that communication is a hard thing to accomplish fully on the stage. Actors tend to become distracted a lot and get pulled out of their scenes; taking the audience members with them. Actors are also known to imitate feelings, as opposed to trying to create their own. The Director continued with his lesson by testing them. He watched them work with their partners and would ring a bell when they did not make direct contact with their object, show off their part or themselves, or they are speaking their lines impersonally. I think that this is a good exercise and would potentially help actors to better understand what is meant by all of this.