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The Madness Behind ‘The Method’

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The American Labora a Theatre

Lee strasburg is born in the stettel. His family emigrates to the united states. They live on the lower east id. Strasburg starts taking classes at the american laboratory theatre, eventually enrolling in the directing class with his friend, the critic and director, harold clerman. Clerman strasburg and their friend and future producer, charle crawford, decide to start a theatre company in this spirit. It's ninet 31, the early days of the great depression. But they assemble a group of impassioned theatre people, mostly jewish and immigrants, or the children of immigrants, to make a theatre that can speak to this American moment.

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