The Lee Strasberg Notes by Cohen, Lola -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

CONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PREFACE BY ANNA STRASBERG NOTE FROM ADAM STRASBERG NOTE FROM DAVID LEE STRASBERG FOREWORD BY MARTIN SHEEN ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION BY LOLA COHEN Part 1 TRAINING AND EXERCISES

Lee Strasberg on training Lee Strasberg on relaxation and concentration Lee Strasberg on habits and conditioning Relaxation exercise

Relaxing in the chair Releasing tension Use of sound Abstract or additional movement

Sense memory exercises Lee Strasberg on sense memory Sequence of sense memory exercises

Breakfast drink Mirror/make-up or shaving Three pieces of material Putting on and taking off shoes and socks or stockings Sunshine Sharp pain Sharp taste and sharp smell Overall sensations Personal objects Combinations of exercises Private moment exercise

Emotional memory exercise Lee Strasberg on emotional memory

Choosing the experience or event Performing the exercise The distinction between sense memory and emotional memory

Animal exercise Song and dance exercise

Song Dance

Movement with sound exercise Voice exercises

Voice exercise 1 Voice exercise 2 Voice exercise 3

Part 2 CHARACTERS AND SCENES

Creating the character Given circumstances Creating imaginary realities with sense and emotional memory Words and lines Anticipation Speaking out Improvisation The problem of repetition Working with the director

Part 3 SCENE CRITIQUES

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams Talk to Me Like the Rain by Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams The Seven Descents of Myrtle by Tennessee Williams Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov Chapter Two by Neil Simon Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee The Owl and the Pussycat by Bill Manhoff I Am a Camera by Christopher Isherwood An Incident at the Standish Arms by William Inge Middle of the Night by Paddy Chayefsky The Rainmaker by N. Richard Nash Barefoot in the Park by Neil Simon In the Boom Boom Room by David Rabe The Time of Your Life by William Saroyan Snowangel by Lewis John Carlino The Women by Claire Booth Luce The Only Game in Town by Frank Gilroy Richard III: Lady Anne monologue, by William Shakespeare Two for the Seesaw by William Gibson Private Lives by Noel Coward Uncommon Women and Others by Wendy Wasserstein The Long Hot Summer by William Faulkner, Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, Jr. Kramer vs Kramer by Avery Corman and Robert Benton Jimmy Shine by Murray Schisgal The Sea Change by Ernest Hemingway The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman Before Breakfast by Eugene O’Neill The Crisis by Paul Bourget and Andre Beaunier The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare A Hatful of Rain by Michael Gazzo Miss Julie by August Strindberg The Hustler by Walter Tevis Inferno(from The Divine Comedy) by Dante Alighieri A Patriot for Me by John Osborne The Country Girl by Clifford Odets

Part 4 DIRECTING AND THE METHOD

Introduction Achieving your vision Working with the actor Casting The set Lighting Music The process of rehearsal

Week 1: Reading rehearsals Week 2: Blocking and memorizing lines Week 3: Line rehearsals and run throughs Week 4: Dress rehearsal

Opening nights Group/mass scenes Directors work with amateur actors Directors work with playwrights Directing in the cinema Lee Strasberg on great directors

Eugene Vakhtangov Vsevolod Meyerhold David Belasco

Lee Strasberg on film directors Avant-garde directors Directing dance Books on directing

Part Five LEE STRASBERG ON SHAKESPEARE AND STANISLAVSKI

Shakespeare Stanislavski

Part 6 LEE STRASBERG ON THE THEATER, ACTING, AND ACTORS

The origin of the Method Historical controversy over Method acting The origin of the Method in American theater Edmund Kean William Macready Edwin Booth Henry Irving The Italians: Tommaso Salvini and Giovanni Grasso Eleanora Duse and Sarah Bernhardt Anton Chekhov Michael Chekhov Emil Jannings John Barrymore Louise Brooks Paul Muni Bertolt Brecht Kim Stanley Patricia Neal Recognition of talent in the theater Poetry Acting: cinema vs stage Courage in the theater

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