Meisner Acting and Emotional Preparation

Meisner Acting

Many beginning students assume that acting is pretending, as well as one can, to feel something. This is the kind of assumption that leads to poor acting choices, bad habits and less than stellar performances. With proper preparation actors deepen their connection to their personal emotional lives, and then translate that into creating "emotional circumstances" for their character. By tapping into their own feelings and desires, and using them to create an imaginary but true "emotional life" for the character, Meisner acting is instinctively in the moment.

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Emotional Preparation using the Meisner Acting Technique

Emotional Preparation using the

Meisner Acting Technique

The belief that actors are just pretending when they work is a myth. In actuality, actors are immersed in and using real emotions and authentic actions drawing from a library that they have created. Of course, anything that has personal meaning can be used, but it must be translated and imagined into a fuller, more truthful story, the "emotional life" of a character. Sanford Meisner's students have the phrase "acting is doing" ingrained because this was the core of his teaching. Actors are not free to commit fully to doing anything onstage, including focusing on the other actors, unless they have done extensive preparation emotionally.

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Meisner Acting: The Art of Emotional Preparation

A key practice of the Meisner acting technique, emotional preparation is a theory/practice in which the actor deepens and strengthens their connections to emotions and impulses that have personal meaning for them that can be translated and developed to create a true "emotional life" for the character.

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