Working with Actors provides the key to unlocking the honest, dynamic performance every actor has within them. It offers a well-articulated formulation of the Meisner Technique easy for directors and actors to use within a working context.
Through setting out an accessible training programme for practitioners working across stage and screen, this book establishes a clear-cut route to building a three-dimensional character in an organic, non-intellectual fashion, based squarely on the character's objectives.
Few books in this field venture out of the training studio, while in this book - alongside offering an intense and concentrated Meisner training programme - the focus is more on the 'pay-off'- the collaborative act of developing the role and how that plays out in rehearsal and performance.
Beyond that, the books uniquely offers-
> a new modality for script reading, analysis and rehearsal through which the character is born in relation to other characters;
> a prioritisation of the key skills for coming alive in the moment listening and putting one's attention wholly on the other character/actor;
> a historical perspective on how Meisner's methods have evolved and why they provide the basis of truthful acting;
> for directors, a format for analysis of the complete work based on Stanislavskian principles;
> for actors, complementary methods, such as Uta Hagen's 'endowment', to enhance the 'reality of doing'
Working with Actors: Meisner Technique for Directors and Actors
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Working with Actors provides the key to unlocking the honest, dynamic performance every actor has within them. It offers a well-articulated formulation of the Meisner Technique easy for directors and actors to use within a working context.
Through setting out an accessible training programme for practitioners working across stage and screen, this book establishes a clear-cut route to building a three-dimensional character in an organic, non-intellectual fashion, based squarely on the character's objectives.
Few books in this field venture out of the training studio, while in this book - alongside offering an intense and concentrated Meisner training programme - the focus is more on the 'pay-off'- the collaborative act of developing the role and how that plays out in rehearsal and performance.
Beyond that, the books uniquely offers-
> a new modality for script reading, analysis and rehearsal through which the character is born in relation to other characters;
> a prioritisation of the key skills for coming alive in the moment listening and putting one's attention wholly on the other character/actor;
> a historical perspective on how Meisner's methods have evolved and why they provide the basis of truthful acting;
> for directors, a format for analysis of the complete work based on Stanislavskian principles;
> for actors, complementary methods, such as Uta Hagen's 'endowment', to enhance the 'reality of doing'
The collaboration of director and actor is the cornerstone of narrative filmmaking. This book provides the director with a concrete step-by-step guide to preparation that connects the fundamentals of...
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