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...American public often appreciates the theatre and applauds wildly, but it doesn't really understand acting," Lee Strasberg told a capacity crowd at New Lecture Hall last Thursday. Speaking on "The Actor in the Theatre," the renowned artistic director of the Actors' Studio gave the first of three lectures on facets of the theatre sponsored by the Summer School...
...verge of creating a new, great theatre. We have today a larger number of good, if not great, playwrights than at any other time, with the possible exception of the Elizabethan era. It all depends on understanding the actor, on training our audiences to know what acting really is," Strasberg stated...
...conventional criteria just don't hold up," Strasberg said. "But something does happen when these people come on the stage. The basic requirement is this: the capacity to be excited by imaginary stimuli. The actor must be able to reproduce a reaction to a situation at will...
...what about non-realistic acting? "No matter what the style is," Strasberg said, "the same capacity of imagination is demanded--even in the most formal theatre, like the Noh drama of Japan. The result must be convincing and believable in any kind of theatre. The two greatest feminine performances I ever saw were given by Duse and Mei Lan-Fang; and the latter was the more notable achievement, for it had to overcome the greater handicaps." (Mei Lan-Fang was the foremost Chinese actor, and head of the Ching-Chung Monastery, who specialized in female impersonations). "In all kinds...
...Strasberg, who has gained recent fame as director of the Actor's Studio, will speak at 8:30 tonight on "The Actor in the Theatre," at the New Lecture Hall. Other talks in the Drama Lecture Series will discuss the position of the director and the playwright in the theatre...