For some reason, I feel compelled to point out that as director of the Moscow Art Theatre, Stanislavski pretty much was the primary interpreter of Chekhov, and that, arguably, "The Method" was essential to the performance of Chekhov--and likely, as director and playwright, they had a good many disagreements--The playwright's nephew, Michael Chekhov, was a great teacher and proponent of the Method--

By some accounts, Stanislavski said that Lee Strasberg misunderstood the method, and was teaching it wrong--Sanford Meisner broke away from Strasberg because he thought the Strasberg Method was too artificial a too complicated--one point that sticks with me is that, while Strasberg emphasized the use of sense memory allowing the actor to create the character's emotions from his own while on stage, Meisner wanted the actor to feel things on stage as the character would--from my understanding, this is more what Stanislavski wanted--

If this seems a bit off topic, keep in mind that more than a few of the fifties and sixties folksingers that we know and love were also actors--