John Strasberg Lectures on Training Actors and the Creative Process
As part of Accidental Repertory Theater's "Living Room Series," Artistic Director John Strasberg offers two lectures on acting and the creative process, December 3 and 10, 8pm, at John Strasberg Studios, 555 Eighth Avenue, Suite 403, New York City.
New York, NY, November 28, 2009 --(PR.com)-- John Strasberg, Artistic Director of Accidental Repertory Theater (ART) and founder of John Strasberg Studios, will present two lectures as a part of ART’s Living Room Series: From Stanislavsky to Strasberg to Strasberg on December 3 and The Organic Creative Process and the Nine Natural Laws of Creativity on December 10. Both lectures will take place at 8pm at John Strasberg Studios, 555 Eighth Avenue, Suite 403 in New York City.
In the first lecture Strasberg examines Konstantin Stanislavski, Strasberg’s father Lee, and himself, exploring how their obsessions, personalities, and problems influenced the way their work process evolved. He will discuss, for instance: Stanislavski’s difficulty being concentrated and truthful as an actor, Lee Strasberg’s difficulty expressing personal feeling, and John Strasberg’s overwhelming insecurity and need to trust his own sense of truth and intuition in the face of The Method and his father’s success. The lecture will also clarify the reality of what the Actors Studio was, and misconceptions about what The Method was and is.
In the sequel to the first lecture Strasberg explains how his work evolved from the world of Stanislavski and the American school that followed – Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler and Sandy Meisner – whose brilliant work broke the creative process down into its separate parts. Stanislavski, The Method, Meisner, and Adler: each system focuses on isolated aspects of that process – a natural consequence of mechanical thinking that dominated human thought since the time of Descartes and Newton. John Strasberg’s discovery of the Organic Creative process begins where his predecessors leave off. It is an organic rather than mechanical process, based on the reality that life is the process of one’s talent, imagination, intelligence, knowledge, and the ability to be spontaneous.
John Strasberg's International career as actor, director, producer, designer, and writer exemplifies, and continues, the artistic tradition of the Strasberg family. In New York, in the mid-1980's he cofounded the Mirror Repertory Company working with artists like Geraldine Page, whom he met at the Actors Studio, where he worked alongside her, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, Al Pacino, Marilyn Monroe, Dustin Hoffman, Robert DeNiro, Harvey Keitel, Elia Kazan, and many other now-famous actors and directors. After directing many award winning productions of classical and contemporary plays, and teaching, in Europe for twelve years, he returned to New York and opened John Strasberg Studios, an International Center for Creative Development and Theater Arts Research. In 2005 he founded Accidental Repertory Theater, which presented open rehearsals and Arts-in-Education programs in 2007 and 2008, and recently finished its first complete production, Brecht on Brecht by George Tabori.
From Stanislavski to Strasberg to Strasberg, December 3, 8pm
The Organic Creative Process and the Nine Natural Laws of Creativity, December 10, 8pm
Suggested contribution, $10
John Strasberg Studios, 555 Eighth Avenue, Suite 403, New York, NY 10018
For reservations call 646 435 7867 or email tickets@accidentalrep.org
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In the first lecture Strasberg examines Konstantin Stanislavski, Strasberg’s father Lee, and himself, exploring how their obsessions, personalities, and problems influenced the way their work process evolved. He will discuss, for instance: Stanislavski’s difficulty being concentrated and truthful as an actor, Lee Strasberg’s difficulty expressing personal feeling, and John Strasberg’s overwhelming insecurity and need to trust his own sense of truth and intuition in the face of The Method and his father’s success. The lecture will also clarify the reality of what the Actors Studio was, and misconceptions about what The Method was and is.
In the sequel to the first lecture Strasberg explains how his work evolved from the world of Stanislavski and the American school that followed – Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler and Sandy Meisner – whose brilliant work broke the creative process down into its separate parts. Stanislavski, The Method, Meisner, and Adler: each system focuses on isolated aspects of that process – a natural consequence of mechanical thinking that dominated human thought since the time of Descartes and Newton. John Strasberg’s discovery of the Organic Creative process begins where his predecessors leave off. It is an organic rather than mechanical process, based on the reality that life is the process of one’s talent, imagination, intelligence, knowledge, and the ability to be spontaneous.
John Strasberg's International career as actor, director, producer, designer, and writer exemplifies, and continues, the artistic tradition of the Strasberg family. In New York, in the mid-1980's he cofounded the Mirror Repertory Company working with artists like Geraldine Page, whom he met at the Actors Studio, where he worked alongside her, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, Al Pacino, Marilyn Monroe, Dustin Hoffman, Robert DeNiro, Harvey Keitel, Elia Kazan, and many other now-famous actors and directors. After directing many award winning productions of classical and contemporary plays, and teaching, in Europe for twelve years, he returned to New York and opened John Strasberg Studios, an International Center for Creative Development and Theater Arts Research. In 2005 he founded Accidental Repertory Theater, which presented open rehearsals and Arts-in-Education programs in 2007 and 2008, and recently finished its first complete production, Brecht on Brecht by George Tabori.
From Stanislavski to Strasberg to Strasberg, December 3, 8pm
The Organic Creative Process and the Nine Natural Laws of Creativity, December 10, 8pm
Suggested contribution, $10
John Strasberg Studios, 555 Eighth Avenue, Suite 403, New York, NY 10018
For reservations call 646 435 7867 or email tickets@accidentalrep.org
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www.accidentalrep.org
Theater phone: 646-435-7867
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