The Acting Form In Holistic Theatre

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The acting style within naturalistic theatre also presented itself as a limitation to Meyerhold, where Stanislavsky used emotion memory, finding the genuine emotion from within and connecting to personal experiences, the actor was able to convey truth behind their characters emotion, and so leading to Stanislavsky goal of achieving a higher sense of emotional truth. However working from the inside out focusing on that performers personal experiences, decreased the pull of imagination on the audiences part, Meyerhold disliked the aspect, as this could take away from the spectator physically feeling the pain presented on stage as they are left looking from the outside in, instead of being put in a uncomfortable and painful situation like what