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Lessons for Actors That Work for Real People Too

Not lessons for you, but lessons I’ve learned. Thoughts on performance, art, teaching,

and training to be a decent person…

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Suzuki in His Own Words
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Suzuki in His Own Words

If I have to articulate the raison d'être for the existence of theatre in simple words, it is a cultural device that seeks to find out how to confront difference and sameness, coincidence and necessity for human beings, as well as how to confront a group of peoples and nations.


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The Suzuki Method of Actor Training
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The Suzuki Method of Actor Training

The 1960’s were an era of transition in Japan. "There was great confusion as Japan moved from an agricultural to an industrial society," (Suzuki) recalls. "You had large populations accumulating in metropolitan areas, rapid economic growth, and tensions between the values of the traditional and modern periods.

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