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Publishers Weekly wrote " The Group Theatre ... ith its self-defined mission to reconnect theater to the world of ideas and actions, staged plays that confronted social and moral issues ... ith members Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg, Stella and Luther Adler, Clifford Odets, Elia Kazan and an ill-assorted band of idealistic actors living hand to mouth are seen welded in a collective of creativity that was also a tangle of jealousies, love affairs and explosive feuds.

" Playwright Arthur Miller said " the Group Theatre was unique and probably will never be repeated.

For awhile it was literally the voice of Depression America ".

Co-founder Harold Clurman, in describing what Strasberg brought to the Group Theater, wrote: Lee Strasberg is one of the few artists among American theater directors.

He is the director of introverted feeling, of strong emotion curbed by ascetic control, sentiment of great intensity muted by delicacy, pride, fear, shame.

The effect he produces is a classic hush, tense and tragic, a constant conflict so held in check that a kind of beautiful spareness results.

The roots are clearly in the intimate experience of a complex psychology, an acute awareness of human contradiction and suffering.