{"product_id":"working-with-actors","title":"Working with Actors","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWorking with Actors\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFew 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.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeyond that, the books uniquely offers:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u0026gt; a new modality for script reading, analysis and rehearsal through which the character is born in relation to other characters;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u0026gt; a prioritisation of the key skills for coming alive in the moment – listening and putting one’s attention wholly on the other character\/actor;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u0026gt; a historical perspective on how Meisner’s methods have evolved and why they provide the basis of truthful acting;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u0026gt; for directors, a format for analysis of the complete work based on Stanislavskian principles; \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u0026gt; for actors,  complementary methods, such as Uta Hagen’s ‘endowment’, to enhance the ‘reality of doing’\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54223644033368,"sku":"9781350295285","price":22.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781350295285.jpg?v=1770274852","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/working-with-actors","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}