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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Note from | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Training and exercises | |
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| Lee Strasberg on training | |
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| Lee Strasberg on relaxation and concentration | |
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| Lee Strasberg on habits and conditioning | |
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| Relaxation exercise | |
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| Relaxing in the chair | |
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| Releasing tension | |
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| Use of sound | |
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| Abstract or additional movement | |
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| Sense memory exercises | |
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| Lee Strasberg on sense memory | |
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| Sequence of sense memory exercises | |
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| Breakfast drink | |
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| Mirror/make-up or shaving | |
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| Three pieces of material | |
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| Putting on and taking off shoes and socks or stockings | |
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| Sunshine | |
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| Sharp pain | |
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| Sharp taste and sharp smell | |
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| Overall sensations | |
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| Personal objects | |
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| Combinations of exercises | |
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| Private moment exercise | |
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| Emotional memory exercise | |
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| Lee Strasberg on emotional memory | |
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| Choosing the experience or event | |
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| Performing the exercise | |
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| The distinction between sense memory and emotional memory | |
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| Animal exercise | |
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| Song and dance exercise | |
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| Song | |
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| Dance | |
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| Movement with sound exercise | |
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| Voice exercises | |
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| Voice exercise 1 | |
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| Voice exercise 2 | |
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| Voice exercise 3 | |
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| Characters and scenes | |
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| Creating the character | |
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| Given circumstances | |
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| Creating imaginary realities with sense and emotional memory | |
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| Words and lines | |
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| Anticipation | |
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| Speaking out | |
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| Improvisation | |
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| The problem of repetition | |
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| Working with the director | |
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| Scene critiques | |
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| Directing and the Method | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Achieving your vision | |
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| Working with the actor | |
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| Casting | |
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| The set | |
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| Lighting | |
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| Music | |
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| The process of rehearsal | |
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| Reading rehearsals | |
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| Blocking and memorizing lines | |
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| Line rehearsals and run throughs | |
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| Dress rehearsal | |
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| Opening nights | |
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| Group/mass scenes | |
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| Directors' work with amateur actors | |
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| Directors' work with playwrights | |
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| Directing in the cinema | |
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| Lee Strasberg on great directors | |
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| Eugene Vakhtangov | |
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| Vsevolod Meyerhold | |
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| David Belasco | |
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| Lee Strasberg on film directors | |
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| Avant-garde directors | |
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| Directing dance | |
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| Books on directing | |
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| Lee Strasberg on Shakespeare and Stanislavski | |
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| Shakespeare | |
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| Stanislavski | |
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| Lee Strasberg on the theater, acting, and actors | |
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| The origin of the Method | |
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| Historical controversy over Method acting | |
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| The origin of the Method in American theater | |
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| Edmund Kean | |
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| William Macready | |
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| Edwin Booth | |
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| Henry Irving | |
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| The Italians: Tommaso Salvini and Giovanni Grasso | |
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| Eleanora Duse and Sarah Bernhardt | |
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| Anton Chekhov | |
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| Michael Chekhov | |
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| Emil Jannings | |
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| John Barrymore | |
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| Louise Brooks | |
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| Paul Muni | |
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| Bertolt Brecht | |
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| Kim Stanley | |
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| Patricia Neal | |
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| Recognition of talent in the theater | |
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| Poetry | |
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| Acting: cinema vs stage | |
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| Courage in the theater | |
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| Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute recommended reading on theater | |
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| Index | |