T D 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: American Laboratory Theatre, Moscow Art Theatre, Harry Ransom Center
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Co-founder of he moscow art theatre in 1897: an actor prepares, building a character, creating a role. Emotional memory > physical action: you start with an emotional memory and you get that emotion that propels you to physically perform that emotion, thinking about your dog dying to make you cry. The (cid:862)magi(cid:272) if(cid:863: what if i"(cid:373) going to get hit by train, useful for actors for imagining the possibilities of what could happen to them. I"(cid:373) a (cid:272)hara(cid:272)ter a(cid:374)d (cid:373)y o(cid:271)je(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e is to not get hit by a train. Moscow art theatre toured in the us in 1922-23. Two former members of the moscow art theatre founded american laboratory theatre in 1923 (closes in: richard bolesavsky and mario ouspenskaya. Joined american laboratory theatre in 1925: her parents were both famous theatre makers. Lab was a hot place to study theatre in new york at the time: trained with stanislavsky in 1934. Lee strasberg (1901-1982: trained with the american laboratory theater.
