 Directors and playwrights frequently use storyboards as special tools to understand the layout of the scene.The great Russian theatre practitioner Stanislavski developed storyboards in his detailed production plans for his Moscow Art Theatre performances (such as of Chekhov's "The Seagull" in 1898).The German director and dramatist Bertolt Brecht developed detailed storyboards as part of his dramaturgical method of "fabels."