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Priscilla Smith of The Great Jones Repertory Project

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2021

Diane Cartwright
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I don't know how an actor in this country is supposed to develop an attitude of responsibility to his craft. Actors are immediately caught up in the problem of having a career. I don't know how actors walking around with resumes, committed to the concept of how-am-I-going-to-promote-my-career, develop themselves at all. I don't think it can happen in a three-week rehearsal period. I find this most painful. I don't know what I would do had not accident provided the opportunity for me to work in this situation and had Ellen Stewart not been there to support it.

In 1971 Priscilla Smith, Andrei Serban, Elizabeth Swadosand the other members of what was then the La Mama Repertory Company (now the Great Jones Repertory Project) engaged in a series of workshops, the end-product of which was Medea rendered in the original Greek and Latin.

Type
Actors and Acting
Information
The Drama Review , Volume 20 , Issue 3: Actors and Acting , September 1976 , pp. 75 - 82
Copyright
Copyright © 1976 The Drama Review

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