A Dream of Passion: The Development of the Method
by Lee Strasberg · Lee Strasberg
Strasberg's own account of how he adapted Stanislavski's system into the Method, covering affective memory, relaxation and the training he ran at the Actors Studio. Sets out the reasoning and the disputes behind techniques usually encountered second-hand.
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