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In his later work, Konstantin Stanislavski encouraged the "active analysis" ([deistvennyi analiz] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help)) of a play, in which actors improvise its dramatic structure. Instead of engaging in at-the-table discussions, the cast translate the text into what Vasily Toporkov calls "the language of actions" and thus, over the course of successive improvisations, act out the dynamic potential of each scene. "The best way to analyze a play", Stanislavski wrote, "is to take action in the given circumstances." Rehearsals identify the structure of conflict—with its inciting events, varying strategies, and abrupt reversal-points—that articulates the dynamics of action and counter-action in each scene. Stanislavski thought that actors could memorise a play's structure of action more easily and quickly than its words. Stella Adler advised that actors find it far easier to remember their lines after they have explored its action in this way and paraphrased its dialogue.

Stanislavski's 'system' of training, preparation, and rehearsal technique considers what actors communicate through their actions to be as important as the actual dialogue that they speak.

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