Working with Actors

<p><i>Working with Actors</i> 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. <p/>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. <p/>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. <p/>Beyond that the books uniquely offers: <p/>> a new modality for script reading analysis and rehearsal through which the character is born in relation to other characters; <p/>> a prioritisation of the key skills for coming alive in the moment - listening and putting one's attention wholly on the other character/actor; <p/>> a historical perspective on how Meisner's methods have evolved and why they provide the basis of truthful acting; <p/>> for directors a format for analysis of the complete work based on Stanislavskian principles; <p/>> for actors complementary methods such as Uta Hagen's 'endowment' to enhance the 'reality of doing'</p>