Accidentally On Purpose

Reflections on Life, Acting and the Nine Natural Laws of Creativity

Author: John Strasberg Series: Applause Books

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Insight into the American acting revolution from the son of its most controversial teacher.

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Insight into the American acting revolution from the son of its most controversial teacher.

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Based on his own experience and the teachings of his celebrated but distant father Lee John Strasberg defines the talent of becoming real in a role. He surveys the traditional partition between life and theatre and urges actors to make it a dynamic living membrane through which vital elements may pass. John Strasberg has written his own intensely personal story about his father's work and the Strasberg dynasty. It is a painful odyssey during which he relives the often demanding role he played as son to a man who was the central father figure to a generation of American actors.

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Based on his own experience and the teachings of his celebrated but distant father, Lee, John Strasberg defines the talent of becoming real in a role. He surveys the traditional partition between life and theatre, and urges actors to make it a dynamic living membrane through which vital elements may pass. John Strasberg has written his own intensely personal story about his father's work and the Strasberg dynasty. It is a painful odyssey during which he relives the often demanding role he played as son to a man who was the central father figure to a generation of American actors.