... tour. He was impressed with the natural performances he had seen. When he discovered that one of Stanislavski's actors, Richard Boleslavsky, had stayed on in New York, Strasberg began to study with him. Because Boleslavsky, who particularly favoured the emotional work, left Stanislavski at the height of Stanislavski's interest in emotional psychology, Strasberg was presented with a prejudiced, slightly inaccurate view of ... Boleslavsky, and, with another Boleslavsky student, Harold Clurman, founded the Group Theatre in 1931 in order to create a "truly American theater". The Group Theat...

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