Rude Mechs presents "The Method Gun" at the TBA Festival in Portland, OR

Sep 09 - Sep 13 2011

Imago Theatre
Portland, OR

The Method Gun explores the life and techniques of Stella Burden, the actor-training guru of the 60’s and 70’s and creator of “The Approach” (referred to as “the most dangerous acting technique in the world”), which fused Western acting methods with risk-based rituals to infuse even the smallest role with sex, death and violence. Using found text from the journals and performance reports of Burden’s company, The Method Gun reenacts the final months of her company’s rehearsals for their nine-years-in-the-making production of “A Streetcar Named Desire.” The Method Gun addresses the ecstasy and excesses of performing, the dangers of public intimacy, and the incompatibility of truth on stage and sanity in real life.


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