Accidentally on Purpose
Subtitle: Reflections on Life, Acting and the Nine Natural Laws of Creativity
Publisher: Applause Books
Published: April 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781557831965
Subjects: Biography: film, television & music; Individual actors & performers; Theatre, drama; Theater - Direction & Production; Entertainment & Performing Arts - Theatre; Acting; Stage Directing; Theatrical producers and directors; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Strasberg, Lee; Performing Arts/Dance; Strasberg, John; Composers & Musicians - General; Performing Arts / Theater / General; Theatrical producers and direc; United States; Entertainment & Performing Arts - General; Biography
Description: Based on his own experience and the teachings of his celebrated but distant father, Lee, Strasberg defines the talent of becoming real in a role. He surveys the traditional partition between life and theatre and urges us to make it a dynamic living membrane through which vital elements may pass.

John Strasberg has written his own intensely personal story about his father's work and the Strasberg dynasty. It is a painful odyssey during which he relives the often demanding role he played as son to a man who was the central father figure to a generation of American actors.