Stella Adler: Using imagination to think about a play, setting and social class

A great clip of arguably the greatest thinker/teacher of the American theatre, Stella Adler. In this clip she starts off discussing the “balance“ of the theatre and the actor’s place within it and how the literature should be used as an “ingredient“. Furthermore, Stella uses Ibsen’s play, “A Doll’s House“ and discusses going over the text and getting one’s impressions... going over them in your mind. She travels using her imagination to illustrate how to think and understand a given environment/setting and