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                            6-WEEK HIGH SCHOOL INTRODUCTORY CLASS - SEE SCHEDULE FOR DETAILS


    

In the early part of the last century . . .

              The Group Theatre revolutionized the American theatre by incorporating a form of training based on the system of Constantin Stanislavski. The Group became a huge commercial success, and generated some of the greatest acting teachers of the 20th century: Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler, Robert Lewis, and most importantly Sanford Meisner.

              However, even in its triumphs, the 'system' was evolving, and competing schools of thought emerged. Stella Adler and Sanford Meisner broke from Strasberg's psychological "method" after finding from Stanislavski that the system had grown from its earlier incarnation. Adler began teaching classes of her own and incorporated the new innovations, and Meisner formulated and began to teach "the reality of doing”, a new "technique". It was a tangible, teachable approach — it was the next great step in the evolution of the training of actors.

              Throughout the last century, and up until today, these diverse traditions handed down from Stanislavski, the Group, and its offspring, have been taught to generations of actors.

Today . . .

              The teachers of "method-oriented" training claim to pass on the psychological
techniques of Strasberg garnered from "25 years of study" with Strasberg himself, but does it take 25 years of STUDY to learn (or teach) any other craft besides acting? Some studios have faculty that "are primarily performing artists," and certainly they are committed performing artists, but are they committed Master Teachers?

              Teachers of the "Meisner technique" have become academic, with certificate programs to award anyone who wishes to learn from Meisner's protégés. Surely these diverse personalities pass on as best as possible what each of them recalls, but where is the next step? Where is the next revolution? Isn't there a Master Teacher who has built upon the venerable work of the lineage of Great Master Teachers — evolving, revolutionizing, and completing the craft?

Yes.

              Stanislavski conceived of a system. Sanford Meisner shaped it into a teachable approach. Robert Patterson has developed it into a complete craft. The Work that is taught at The Robert Patterson Studio IS the new revolution for training in the craft of Acting.

              Robert Patterson's complete approach is the result of thirty years of teaching and is as revolutionary as the Group was 70 years ago. This is not "technique" from a year of basic exercises and a year of character work, after which a student applies his bag of tricks for life; this is acting as a complete craft, learned as one continuous action. When the student finishes, the work is then applied to a role as one continuous action leaving no "acting problems," no holes, and no questions. It is called The Work, because it is just that — it is the way an actor works, and it is complete.




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