starring FREDDIE MACBRUCE as SURPRISE
The Meisner technique is often one of the first methods approached in a young actor's training. “Acting is the ability to live truthfully under imaginary circumstances,” said its creator, Sanford Meisner. While many techniques prioritise personal experience, Meisner champions a more fertile place - vivid imagination. It encourages actors to actively listen and let their scene and partner affect them. Emotional truth grows. Nerves are made redundant. You are your most present.
Since the 1860s, aspiring performers have been streaming into the UK's acting schools - the historic Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (Rada), the star-making Guildhall, the excitingly visionary Identity School of Acting. A glut of graduates also emerge to meet casting queues, callbacks over Zoom and opening nights. They're armed with Meisner, Stanislavski,…
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Dazed & Confused (Digital) - 1 Issue, Winter 2024