Word: stanislavskian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Obviously, Maria does not go through these Stanislavskian contortions for the histrionic hell of it. She finds that they give her a more immediate experience of how it feels to be the person she is portraying. As Maria explains her method and her goal: "I drive to the center of the being I must become, until I know it as I know my own. But more than that. I want the parts I play to represent not one woman, but all women, The Woman. I am trying to separate truth from reality. There are millions of leaves, each in itself...