Abstract
May 2023 marks the 125th anniversary of Maria Osipovna Knebel’s birth. On the eve of this anniversary, Natalya Alekseevna Zvereva, Knebel’s student, outstanding theatre teacher, professor at the Department of Drama Directing at GITIS, Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation, and Ph.D., shared her memories of working together with Maria Osipovna in 1971. It happened during the production of the play by A. N. Ostrovsky, “Talents and Admirers,” at the Moscow Academic Theatre named after Vl. Mayakovsky. Maria Knebel called this performance the most beloved of all the productions staged by her. Using the example of Knebel’s work on this production, the article traces some unique features of her rehearsal and pedagogical approach. Her method of work was based on an effective analysis of the play. She obtained this last brilliant discovery of K.S. Stanislavsky (as Knebel herself described it) directly from him. Maria Knebel devoted many years of her life to this method’s development, along with its introduction into theatrical practice and pedagogy.
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