Friday, June 3, 2011

Meisner- Emotional Preparation

We are all emotional beings, and we "do" based largely on our strongest desires and impulses. A Meisner trained actor does extensive preparation by delving into these emotional undercurrents from personal experience and by experiencing and meditating on a set of created circumstances, feelings and impulses based on those feelings. These are constantly alive and at the ready during an entire performance without the actor even being fully aware of them.



In any good production of course, the emotional prep is extensive from developing the emotional circumstances used to enter the scene, to the complicated feelings and relationships as the story evolves and the character faces grief, stress, joy, love, hatred, anger--and any combination of these--this can be costly emotionally but, any actor worth their salt will agree that it's the best feeling in the world to master it.



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