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Acting: Lee Strasberg and the Actors Studio: Directed by Herbert Kline. With Lee Strasberg, Ellen Burstyn, Dick Cavett, Jane Fonda. A documentary film about the world-famous American actors' school and showcase, the Actors Studio in New York, concentrating upon the life and work of Lee Strasberg.
It was founded in 1947 by Elia Kazan, Cheryl Crawford, and Robert Lewis, and later directed by Lee Strasberg, all former members of the Group Theatre, an early pioneer of the acting techniques of Constantin Stanislavsky that would become known as method acting.
In 1951, he became director of the nonprofit Actors Studio in New York City, considered "the nation's most prestigious acting school," and, in 1966, he was involved in the creation of Actors Studio West in Los Angeles.
Lee Strasberg on the Actors Studio. From the beginning, the Actors Studio was created as a workshop, a place where actors could work on the elements of their art apart from the concerns of production.
The Method trains actors to use their physical, mental and emotional self in the creation of a character and stresses the way in which personal experience can fire the actors imagination. It eschews clichés and pursues individual authenticity and a reality deeply grounded in the given circumstances of the script.
Strasberg’s deep understanding of the Stanislavski System and the reformulations of Vakhtangov, together with his own personal discoveries and improvements on the acting process, provided the foundation on which The Actors Studio based its work.
11 Mac 2019 · As the only school in the world that teaches Lee Strasberg’s work in its consummate form, The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute is the home for all actors seeking to delve into Method Acting and its tradition of training some of the world’s most brilliant and truthful actors.
