For many years, the Moscow Art Theatre (MAT) had used a system of acting that tried to eliminate the formal, static, and presentational performances given on the traditional stage. In 1936, Constantin Stanislavski wrote the first of three books explaining the system the actors at the MAT used. For the first time in published form, it was recommended that actors use their own real emotions while acting instead of showing a representation of said emotions. In his first book, An Actor Prepares, Stanislavski discussed the exercises MAT actors went through to get in touch with and in control of these emotions so as

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