{"product_id":"9781350295285","title":"Working with Actors : Meisner Technique for Directors and Actors by Stephen Bayly","description":"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:\u0026gt; a new modality for script reading, analysis and rehearsal through which the character is born in relation to other characters;\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;\u0026gt; a historical perspective on how Meisner's methods have evolved and why they provide the basis of truthful acting;\u0026gt; for directors, a format for analysis of the complete work based on Stanislavskian principles; \u0026gt; for actors,  complementary methods, such as Uta Hagen's `endowment', to enhance the `reality of doing'\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56298070114677,"sku":"9781350295285","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781350295285.jpg?v=1762782336","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781350295285","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}