We note with great sadness the death of our friend and colleague Prof. Richard Hornby. A member of the faculty of The University of California Riverside, where he had been Professor of Theatre since 1991, Richard was a founder member of the Advisory Board of The Stanislavski Centre, and had contributed to a number of […]
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Sergei Tcherkasski wins prestigious Stanislavsky Prize
Advisory Board member Professor Sergei Tcherkasski ( Russian State Institute of Performing Arts, St Petersburg) who is also an editor of our journal, Stanislavski Studies, has been awarded the prestitious Stanislavsky Prize 2016/17 in the category of Theatre Studies and Theatrical Criticism. The following announcement comes from the Colta/ru website: The laureates of […]
The University of Malta becomes S Word partner.
We are very pleased to announce that The University of Malta has become a partner institution in our international research project, The S Word. We can also announce that our 2019 event, The S Word: Stanislavski in Context, will take place in Malta in Spring 2019, co-convened by Dr Stefan Aquilina, a member of the Stanislavski […]
The S Word: A Practical Acting Laboratory - Booking opens 1st August
Booking for our next international symposium, The S Word: A Practical Acting Laboratory, opens online on 1st August. This event takes place at The University of California Riverside , 6th to 8th April 2018. For details of the event, please go to http://theatrefutures.org.uk/stanislavski-centre/the-s-word-a-practical-acting-laboratory-university-of-california-riverside-april-2018/ Because of the practical nature of this event, places are strictly limited, so we […]
The Routledge Companion to Michael Chekhov - now available in paperback!
The Routledge Companion to Michael Chekhov Edited by MARIE-CHRISTINE AUTANT-MATHIEU, (Director of Research at the National Center For Scientific Research, and Assistant-Director of Sorbonne-CNRS Institute EUR’ORBEM and YANA MEERZON, University of Ottawa This Companion brings together Chekhov specialists from around the world - theatre practitioners, theorists, historians and archivists - to provide an astonishingly comprehensive […]
The S Word: A Practical Acting Laboratory - University of California Riverside, April 2018
The third part of our major international research project, The S Word, will be hosted by partner institution The University of California Riverside. A Unique and Exciting Opportunity to Develop Your Practice-Based Acting Research… “The S Word: A Practical Acting Laboratory” April 6-8, 2018 University of California, Riverside, in collaboration with the Stanislavski […]
Practise, Reflect, Share: Saturday 17th June at Rose Bruford College, Sidcup
The Stanislavski Centre and Stanislavski Studies is supporting and co-presenting the following one-day event. Practise, Reflect, Share: Ways into Research Saturday 17th June 9am-5pm Aimed primarily at those involved in the training of performers, directors, designers and technicians, this one-day event hosted by Rose Bruford College offers a unique opportunity to meet with colleagues and […]
Teatro Escola Macunaíma, becomes new partner in The S Word
We are very pleased to welcome our new partner in The S Word international research project: Teatro Escola Macunaíma, based in São Paulo, Brazil. Colleagues from the school attended the 2017 symposium in Prague, and gave a fascinating panel presentation of their work. The school will promote The S Word events in South America, and […]
Demidov Acting Technique Russian Summer School 2017
The deadline for applications for the first Demidov Acting Technique Russian Summer School near Moscow is May 15. The Summer School will take place in July and will comprise two, 10-day sessions, with participants able to choose to do one or both 10-day training period, with sight seeing organised on rest days. The Summer […]

Nikolai Demidov: Becoming an Actor-Creator (Pushkin House, London, 15th June)
The Stanislavski Centre is sponsoring the following event: To coincide with the recent release of the book Nikolai Demidov: Becoming an Actor-Creator, co-editor and translator Professor Andrei Malaev Babel will give a talk on the history and practice of the great but little-known Russian acting pedagogue Nikolai Demidov’s School of Acting is Russian Theatre’s best-kept […]

Advisory Board
- Marie-Christine Autant-Mathieu
- Andrei Malaev Babel
- Sharon Carnicke
- Kathy Dacre
- Jan Hancil
- Richard Hornby
- Bella Merlin
- Jonathan Pitches
- Laurence Senelick
- Maria Shevtsova
- Sergei Tcherkasski
- Jean Benedetti (Founding Patron)