1 year of the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Drama - Sanford Meisner on Acting ISBN: 488059170X Tankobon Author: Sanford Meissner | Language: English | ISBN:
488059170X | Format: PDF
1 year of the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Drama - Sanford Meisner on Acting ISBN: 488059170X Tankobon Description
- Tankobon Hardcover
- Publisher: Age thirty Shobo (0100)
- ISBN-10: 488059170X
- ISBN-13: 978-4880591704
- Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.1 x 1.1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
I am currently studying the craft of acting at one of the 3 year professional acting acadamies here in LA. I very much enjoyed reading this book and have done so at this point several times. I would most highly recommend it to anyone thinking about or currently studying the craft of acting.
In the first chapter (Setting The Scene: Duse's Blush), we are giving a chronology of Meisners life and how he came to be such a great and beloved teacher. It is also in this first chapter that Meisner recounts the story of Elenora Duse, a legendary Italian actress who played the role of Magda in Hermann Sundermanns Heimat. In the first scene of this play, as the story goes, she is a young girl that has an affair with a guy from the same village, and she has a child by him. Twenty-five years later, or thereabouts, she comes back to visit her family who live in this town, and her ex-lover comes to call on her. She accepts his flowers and they sit and talk. All of a sudden the actor realizes that she is blushing, and it gets so bad that she drops her head and hides her face in embarrassment. Although we learn that this does not happen every performance, it is this blush that is the epitome of living truthfully under imaginary circumstances. This is Meisners definition of all good acting.
The foundation of acting, is the reality of doing. It is this basic premise that is the spine of this book of exercises intended to bring the actor closer to their emotional self. It is an approach that is based on bringing the actor away from the intellectualizing of character analysis back to his emotional impulses and to acting that is firmly rooted in the instinctive.
1 year of the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Drama - Sanford Meisner on Acting ISBN: 488059170X Tankobon Preview
Link
Please Wait...