Word: actor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twelve Angry Men. A thriller of ideas in which the right to trial (and error) by jury is cleverly cross-examined by Scriptwriter Reginald Rose, Actor Henry Fonda (TIME, April...
...also talked about Moliere as another actor-playwright who combatted the conventional acting...
What Does an Actor Create...
...Since an actor has his lines furnished to him, just what does he create? Strasberg answered, "An actor creates character; he creates a new human being." From the 18th century he cited the example of David Garrick's interpretation of King Lear, in which Garrick "showed for the first time the whole process though which a person actually goes insane." And from the 19th century he mentioned Edmund Kean's conception of Shylock as an Italian Jew only 38 years old, and said he wished somebody else would dare to try this approach sometime...
Another creation of the actor, Strasberg felt, is the feeling of humanity. "All the other arts can only come close to capturing a sense of humanity; acting alone can really...