On 22 May 1938, Stanislavsky gathered his group of eleven assistant-pedagogues at the Opera-Dramatic Studio for a last collective class. The Studio was already free for the summer vacation after the tumultuous first show of Chekhov’s Three Sisters, opened only to a small number of guests a week before. Mikhail Kedrov had rehearsed the performance with the students for the preceding three years, and it was doomed to become the first public presentation of the so-called ‘method of physical actions’. Nevertheless, the presentation brought nothing more than doubts about the work done, and Stanislavsky felt compelled to call upon the pedagogues to understand what had happened. After briefly presenting his opinion of the work that had been shown, he started to elaborate on the technical and artistic achievements of the Studio. Stanislavsky began his talk in its stenographic transcript (File No. 21179 in the Stanislavsky Fund of the Moscow Art Theatre Museum Archives) with: ‘Everything now is lost. The technique and all the rest. I don’t see any foundation … any more. You should now start by the critique of the method I have been experimenting on.’ This article analyzes Stanislavsky’s documented talk, showing that he was not convinced that he had a new methodology, let alone one that synthesized his life-long theatre experiments. It seeks to present evidence that both the Physical Action and Active Analysis methodologies derived from Stanislavsky’s thought post mortem were developed only as two possible paths from his experiments, but were not the telos of his thought.

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“现在一切都失去了”：斯坦尼斯拉夫斯基在歌剧工作室的最后一堂课

1938 年 5 月 22 日，斯坦尼斯拉夫斯基将他的 11 名助理教师召集在歌剧戏剧工作室进行最后一次集体授课。在热闹的契诃夫首场演出结束后，工作室的暑假已经免费了三姐妹，一周前只对少数客人开放。米哈伊尔·克德罗夫与学生一起排练了三年的表演，这注定成为所谓“身体动作法”的首次公开展示。然而，演讲带来的只是对所做工作的怀疑，斯坦尼斯拉夫斯基觉得有必要呼吁教师们了解发生了什么。在简要介绍了他对所展示作品的看法后，他开始阐述工作室的技术和艺术成就。斯坦尼斯拉夫斯基在其速记抄本（莫斯科艺术剧院博物馆档案馆斯坦尼斯拉夫斯基基金会的文件编号 21179）中开始了他的演讲：“现在一切都丢失了。技术和所有其他。我再也看不到任何基础了。你现在应该从批评我一直在试验的方法开始。本文分析了斯坦尼斯拉夫斯基的谈话记录，表明他不相信自己有一种新方法，更不用说综合了他毕生戏剧实验的方法了。它试图提供证据，证明源自斯坦尼斯拉夫斯基思想事后分析的物理行动和主动分析方法论只是作为他实验的两条可能途径而发展起来的，而不是他思想的目的。