work students have to first and from the most renowned theaters both gathered here for the status lasky festival there steve rush an actor and here director of the early twentieth century content to spend his last he is considered to be the father of the modern pageants called what's so special about the training that he created the famous status last piece just to discuss it with melissa smith conservative director and the head of acting at the american concertedly theater in san francisco the only american company invited to the status last in the first. place here first time in its history the prestigious stanislavski theater festival even international students to stage nine of the best drama schools from russia europe and the united states are putting on productions the concept is an open class teachers and students are sharing their views on the acting and future of theatre for many participants this is truly a once in a lifetime experience they did not want to mess to bring all the. some cost you from the other side of the world students from the american conservatory theatre rai

the names russian theatre the influence your well i would say michael chekhov is a huge and status lasky. and time chekhov's plays a huge influence and a huge teaching tool in in the united states teaching to oh absolutely not only the material i mean you have to you have to give the teaching to to to work with it but do they also teach the material you know one of the great artistic partnerships i think in western theatre is that event on chekhov and constantine stands lasky because i think in stanislaw ski check are found the director who could bring his plays to life and just in that clip we were just seeing with stanislaw skis interest and authenticity and. stage that's the kind of playwright the chap was who his interest was in authentic characters authentic characterisation so the two go together if you want to teach standards lasky system chuff parts of great playwright to you what ago would have been. the only technique used to teach. you something or. i would say that everything some people say that was standard stuff that really did was codified the rule break rules of acting t

for a couple of reasons in the state status last stylists lasky is the brand name when it comes to actually training and all the different techniques. being used in various schools the root of all those techniques systemic. it's also true that they studied chekov scene scenes from three sisters cherry orchard those major plays in the first year of their training we looked at lots of pictures of russia at that time they worked on the scenes for two and a half months and i think at the time no one imagined they would possibly be coming to the motherland so when the opportunity came up it really seemed like a fantasy. come true because they had loved working on those play listen to the the a c. t. has brought the house sort of bird with the those letters to what was the performance received world here in moscow why do you choose this particular well because we thought it was one of the best productions we've done in our school and it was done with this group of actors last winter in february and it was so well received in san francisco i think it's a very innovative and inventive production an

the idea of harold laski being s--who was a socialist, being succeeded by a conservative upset a lot of people. he was a brilliant thinker and a brilliant writer, but a little offbeat so far as the united states was concerned. i mean, he was very english. he died only--what?--seven, eight, 10 years ago or something like that--and a very elegant writer, and some of his essays, i think, are classical. c-span: how many years did you teach total? >> guest: seventeen. c-span: you write a lot about your early teachers in here and people that you admire. what do you think makes a good teacher? >> guest: oh, there are many things that make a good teacher one is you have to respect your students; that is to say, i mean, you have to think that what you're saying means something to them. if it doesn't mean something to them, which we would call, i guess, a failure to communicate, then you're not teaching well. i mean, there's no excuse for students not understanding what you're saying. whatever level the students may be at, it's your job to make them understand what you're saying and, if possib

. >> narrator: robert lasky is the fbi's assistant special agent in charge for montana. >> clearly, he took advantage of her being naive. >> narrator: dixon has a strange way of showing his affection. instead of taking ms. isaacs out to dinner, he has her take out pre-paid debit cards in her own name. a few months after they meet, they start going to banks. while dixon waits in the car, she puts the plastic to use. >> she flashed her credit card. she said, "can i do a cash advance on a credit card?" and i said, "yes." and she said, "but i'm not sure what my limit is. can i use your phone to call my credit-card company?" >> narrator: meay santigilia is a teller at first security bank in bozeman. she comes face-to-face with patience isaacs in september of 2007. >> she tried to get me on the phone with her credit-card company representative as soon as she walked in. >> narrator: across town, ms. isaacs goes into many banks like this one, where her goal is simple -- ask for a cash advance, and get the teller on the phone. >> she, basically, hands the teller a pre-paid credit card and asks

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hidden america by jean-marie laskis. join us tonight.l, the administration continues to struggle with libya, the issue, we know now that september 11th the attack that killed our ambassador was a pre-planned terrorist attack. but the administration keeps trying to tie it to that ant anti-islamic movie. here is chris wallace grilling david axelrod. >> this is the first u.s. ambassador that's been killed since 1979. susan rice came on this show and five others and gave the american people a story that turned out not to be true and you're saying that we shouldn't discuss this? that we should wait for the investigation to be completed? >> no, no. >> that's what you just said. >> that's obviously-- that's, chris, calm down that's obviously not what i'm saying. >> well, the question is, will the libya situation become an issue in the debate tomorrow night? >> it's amazing that this video is still being discussed. so here is the latest news on this, is that the video is still available on youtube, which is a google subsidiary, now, thousands of