Jacob L Lit and Performance Blog

For the past week, my class had to create a presentation about a famous director in the past.   The name of my director is Lee Strasberg.  Strasberg is a very famous director who first directed "Men in White" in 1933.  He soon moved to New York to become a director with the Actors Studio.  Constantin Stanislavski is the most famous out of them all.  Stanislavski changed many directors lives who wanted to be the best and Strasberg was one of these directors.  Stanislavski created this "system" which was soon learned by Strasberg.  Lee Strasberg turned this system into his own method carrying out the directing information.  This  method helps actors train their minds, senses, and feelings.  This method was used to create the character's uniqueness and behavior.  LSTFI is the only school for directing that teaches Lee's method.  Anyways, Lee directed many famous actors in todays world.  He finally retired in 1929.  I lea...

Grace and I are working together and we chose 2 different scenes.  The first scene is when Amanda asks Tom about the fire escape that he always uses as an "excuse" to get out of the house.  The other scene is at the end when Tom has decided that he wants to leave Amanda and Laura in the dust.  This scene is when Amanda is arguing with Tom about his departure.  I think these two scenes are really important in the glass menagerie.  The fire escape is really a "card" that Tom uses a lot in the story.  He always says that he is going out for a smoke but really he goes into town and gets really drunk.  His excuse when he comes home is very frustrating at least to Laura and Amanda.  He always say "I went to the movies" but he really did not.  If I was Amanda I would also be pissed that he is coming home late every other night.  At the end, Tom has just had it with his mother, Amanda.  He decides that he is leaving Amanda and Laura with no...

- Tom and the Fire escape scene - Lauras  scene when she is home cleaning her glass and then her mom comes in - Amanda asking tom to find Laura a gentlemen caller - Laura at the end scene before Tom leaves her and her mom for good - Laura scene when Jim breaks glass unicorn - Amanda/ Tom and then Tom breaks Lauras glass https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEtbKIrJomE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFeQbEUjHVk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mghHR9fGla0