The idea is to follow Stanislavsky’s transcendental journey into acting, through the experiences of Maxim, the (AI Avatar) student, loosely modelled on Kostya in Actor Prepares. The story can cover most aspects of Stanislavsky’s system – in each case seeking an gen-AI parallel. I will also divide the story into three broader sections which follow each of the main (mis-)translated books most of which were published posthumously after Stanislavsky’s death in 1938. Thus:-
- An Avatar Prepares :: (An Actor Prepares)
- Synthesising a Character (Obraz) :: (Building a Character)
- Simulating a Realisation :: (Creating a Role)
It will also be good to find analogues to the different facets of the ‘system’, which are roughly:-
- Emotion and memory
- Attention
- Subtext
- Imagination
- Magic If
- Objective
- Physical action
- Tempo and rhythm
- Given circumstances
- Observation
- Super-objective
- Truthfulness
- Communion
