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Episode 89 - The History of Method Acting with Isaac Butler

The Theatre History Podcast

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A Streetcar Named Desire: A History of the Method Acting Movement

Theater critic Brooks Atkinson barely mentions the performance of Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire. After World War II, method acting really kind of goes mainstream. Every man who moves to New York to be an actor wants to be Brando.

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