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The Juggernaut of Production

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2022

Gordon Rogoff
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In the autumn of 1958, Lee Strasberg told the members of The Actors’ Studio that he was feeling worried and belligerent about the emphasis on individual excellence that seemed to have become the entire raison d'etre of the Studio, an emphasis which he considered to be taken at the expense of the concept of the ensemble. “We lose the sense,” he said, “of serving the theatre.” His worry, seen then or now, could be easily understood by the most casual observer of the American theatrical scene. His belligerence, then and now, can not be so easily understood, since it is not readily apparent to the naked—or should I say hungry?—eye.

Belligerence implies the will to change, and in the case of those who would lead American theatre, the will to do more than change a way of work. The word belongs to the vocabulary of war.

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Research Article
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Tulane Drama Review , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , Fall 1963 , pp. 130 - 156
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Copyright © 1963 The Tulane Drama Review

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