Being social workers, they knew that you had to nurture a child for him to grow up and be OK, they allowed me to be independent. For a while, Key thought he might follow in his parents' footsteps, but psychology classes weren't for him. He dropped the minor and concentrated on his theatre studies. After graduation, he went to England for six weeks, and witnessed how theatre training there differed from what he had already learned. This information helped him to form his own acting theories, which are a hybrid of the two countries' philosophies.
American classics are more obscure and antiquated both socially and morally.
It's our contemporary theatre that makes us go. Key said that rather than concentrating on action and dialogue, what's on the printed page, American actors often get too preoccupied with why a character does what he does. So much of what a character is about is in what he does, what words he uses. We overlook that here in the search for why he's feeling this or that. Taking this knowledge back with him to America, he auditioned for the University Resident Theatre Association, and got invitations to attend over 20 different schools.