Elements of the active analysis of Stanislavski applied to a Tatar version of La vida es sueño

Abstract

The work focuses on analysing the staging of Life is a Dream, which I undertook with the Tartar State Academic Theatre company, “Galiasgar Kamal”, in Kazan, Russia, in 2008, (called Tagdir) presented in various theatres of the Russian Federation and the Ibero-American Theatre Festival of Bogotá. The exercise practiced with these actors from the Russian school consists of analysing the works based on the action, on what happens, without being confused by what the characters say. This methodology called Active Analysis was developed by  Konstantín Stanislavski and María Ósipovna Knébel and uses simple concepts such as events and given circumstances in the scenes and the super-objectives of the characters. This analysis is generally used for psychological dramas, but it can be an interesting model for dealing with the Spanish Golden Age comedies.