Meisner technique

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The Meisner technique is an acting technique developed by the American theatre practitioner Sanford Meisner.[1]

Meisner developed this technique after working with Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler at the Group Theatre and while working as head of the acting program at New York City's Neighborhood Playhouse. He continued its refinement for fifty years.

Components

Meisner Training is an interdependent series of training exercises that build on one another. The more complex work supports a command of dramatic text. Students work on a series of progressively complex exercises to develop an ability to first improvise, then to access an emotional life, and finally to bring the spontaneity of improvisation and the richness of personal response to textual work. The techniques developed the behavioral strand of Stanislavski's.

List of Meisner-trained actors

Prominent actors who trained at The Neighborhood Playhouse or elsewhere in the Meisner technique include:[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Hirsch (2000, 498).
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  3. ↑ "Between Takes at CBS - Amanda Setton". CBS. Retrieved 2013-10-29. 
  4. ↑ "Christoph Waltz - Dill Pickle". YouTube. Retrieved 2013-08-19. 
  5. ↑ "YouTube". YouTube. 2004-10-17. Retrieved 2013-08-19. 
  6. ↑ Itzkoff, Dave (19 June 2013). "James Gandolfini Is Dead at 51; a Complex Mob Boss in ‘Sopranos’". The New York Times. p. 2. Retrieved 19 June 2013. 
  7. ↑ http://johnsonlaird.com/assets/documents/1569/1569_actor_biography.pdf.  Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. ↑ "Stephen Colbert shmoozes about family deaths". YouTube. Retrieved 2013-08-19. 
  9. ↑ "A post about acting, and the imporance of keeping it simple". 2013-11-08. 

Sources

  • Banham, Martin, ed. 1998. The Cambridge Guide to Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. ISBN 0-521-43437-8.
  • Courtney, C. C. 2000. "The Neighborhood Playhouse." In Krasner (2000b, 291-295).
  • Hirsch, Foster. 2000. "Actors and Acting." In Wilmeth and Bigsby (2000, 490-513).
  • Hodge, Alison, ed. 2000. Twentieth Century Actor Training. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-19452-0.
  • Krasner, David. 2000a. "Strasberg, Adler and Meisner: Method Acting." In Hodge (2000, 129-150).
  • ---, ed. 2000b. Method Acting Reconsidered: Theory, Practice, Future. New York: St. Martin's P. ISBN 978-0-312-22309-0.
  • Longwell, Dennis, and Sanford Meisner. 1987. Sanford Meisner on Acting. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0-394-75059-0.
  • Postlewait, Thomas. 1998. "Meisner, Sanford." In Banham (1998, 719).
  • Silverberg, Larry. 1994. The Sanford Meisner Approach: An Actor’s Workbook. Workbook One. New Hampshire: Smith and Kraus. ISBN 978-1-880399-77-4.
  • Wilmeth, Don B, and Christopher Bigsby, eds. 2000. The Cambridge History of American Theatre. Vol 3. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge UP. ISBN 978-0-521-66959-7.

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