Based on his own experience and the teachings of his celebrated but distant father, Lee, John Strasberg defines the talent of becoming real in arole. He surveys the traditional partition between life and theatre, an d urges actors to make it a dynamic living membrane through which vital elements may pass. John Strasberg has written his own intensely personalstory about his father's work and the Strasberg dynasty. It is a painfu l 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.
