Technological University Dublin ARROW@TU Dublin Books/Book Chapters Conservatory of Music and Drama 2014 Loving the Art in Yourself Mary Moynihan Technological University Dublin,
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[email protected]. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License 2 I Loving the art in yourself Mary Moynihan After spending five years in New York, training and performing with theatre practitioners such as 'Erwin Piscator, Saul Colin, Lee Strasberg and Allan Miller", American-born Deirdre O'Connell (1939-2001) came to Ireland and founded the Stanislavski Acting Studio of Dublin in May 1963. The Stanislavski studio was so named as the type of training that Deirdre wanted to bring to Ireland. It was based on the theatrical theoh and techniques of the Russian Theatre practitioner, actor and director Konstantin Stanislavski (1863-1938), founder and theatre administrator ofthe Moscow Art Theatre and creator ofthe Stanislavski system of actor training, 'the most influential system of acting in the Western World'.2 The Stanislavski approach is a system of training, not a specific style of acting, that aims to provide the skills necessary for the actor to develop the inner life; the emotional and sensory life of the character.