NYTimes.com: Size mattered — really mattered — to Stella Adler. “Make it big,” she would say again and again to her students in the dramatic arts, whom she spent four decades training to be giants. “Be as large as the stage is,” she said. “Don’t be afraid of the size. You need it as actors — we need it in America.”
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I think this article is a living example of how we learn from ourselves. The theatre is an especially great place to do this. It is said that history repeats itself and we can learn from the events in history. I think much of the same principle applies in the theatre. Though the same play may be performed a million times, every individual who participates will take something new away from it. I think Stella Adler's avid move to analyze from playwrights of a somewhat older generation is a wonderful one, because she is using the craft she loves, as is evident in her quotes, to keep that same craft new and alive.
I want to say one thing: can you beat Jewish actors? Everyone gets a kick out of yiddish! I think, on a more serious note, that these kinds of people are what inspire the rest of us. Theatre people should learn from each other, and Stella Adler is a good representation of that.
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