caa a22 4500 388093919 CHVBK 20180307125259.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199908 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0266464X00013026 doi S0266464X00013026 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0266464X00013026 Merlin Bella Albert Filozov and the Method of Physical Actions [Elektronische Daten] [Bella Merlin] As a complementary piece to her preceding article on the formative significance of The Seagull to Stanislavsky's early thinking, Bella Merlin here looks at the play in the context of Stanislavsky's later work, when he was developing the Method of Physical Actions - an approach to a text which placed improvisation and the physical exploration of a scene at the centre of the actor's rehearsal process. This was in some ways a contravention of what was becoming codified in the West (through limited material being available in translation) as the psychological basis of the system. In 1995, Bella Merlin undertook a ten-month course of actor-training at the State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow, where she worked with acting ‘master', Albert Filozov, who had trained with Mikhail Kedrov, one of the first developers of Stanislavsky's work following his death in 1938. Here, she examines the roots of Filozov's training and the nature of the Method of Physical Actions in theory and in practice. Bella Merlin trained as an actress in Britain and Russia, and has worked extensively in theatre and television. She is currently a lecturer in Drama and Theatre Arts at Birmingham University, where her area of research is acting processes and the psycho-physical nature of performance. This article is based on a paper delivered at the ‘Flight of the Seagull' conference at the Alexandrinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, in November 1996, to celebrate the one-hundredth anniversary of the premiere of The Seagull. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 New Theatre Quarterly Cambridge University Press 15/3(1999-08), 228-235 0266-464X 15:3<228 1999 15 NTQ https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X00013026 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X00013026 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Merlin Bella NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- New Theatre Quarterly Cambridge University Press 15/3(1999-08), 228-235 0266-464X 15:3<228 1999 15 NTQ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge