And what training! “I’ve never seen anything like it: three or four forms of acting work, dancing, acrobatics, plastique, gymnastics … Their voice work is marvelous, really related to the theatre. I’ve never seen it done before.” She sat in on classes in Meyerhold’s biomechanics technique and “saw feats of diction performed by boys and girls eighteen and twenty, such as no actor I’ve heard can do … They juggle with sounds.” She was also impressed that they trained their actors to be citizens of the world, studying “Marxism, dialectic materialism, social problems, all those things.” When they
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