Working with Actors

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''