What are the major tenets of the Stanislavski system?

What will be an ideal response?

• Given circumstances—The physical and emotional conditions in the play that determine a character's behavior
• Imagination and the magic if—The ability of the actor to act as if the fictional given circumstances were true
• Objective or task—What the character wants at any moment on the stage
• Psychophysical action—What the character does to achieve the objective or task
• Adaptation—The adjustment of the character's behavior as circumstances change
• Units and beats—Divisions of the script, with each unit or beat representing a single objective or task
• Concentration of attention—The focus of the actor's attention exclusively on the reality on stage
• Emotional or affective memory—Drawing on the actor's personal experiences to evoke emotion (which Stanislavski later abandoned)
• Communion—The deep communication that takes place between actors on stage
• Physicalizing the character—What the actor does to give physical life—body, voice, mannerism—to the character on stage