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Best Acting
Tip: Meisner Technique of Acting Tip
By
Leanne Mauro
I’m quite biased toward The
Meisner Technique of Acting for one
very good reason it works!
It would be impossible to
teach you the technique in an article
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but if I could share one extremely valuable point that any
actor
or actress regardless of training or experience to date
could
take away with them it would be this.
Put all your attention on
your partner!
Putting all your attention
on your working partner results in
listening and answering, living moment to moment, and
hence
living truthfully. This is what makes acting magnetic and
riveting.
Great acting is about
listening and answering. It’s like a
tennis match. Hitting the ball back and forth. And to be
able to
do this your must take the attention off your self
otherwise
your holding the ball in your hand and there is no game.
And
that is boring!
The Meisner Technique of
Acting is far more in depth than this
one point but if you leave your self alone and don’t do
anything
unless the other person makes you do it you can improve
your
acting immediately.
What I mean by this is don’t
ACT! Don’t put on a show, don’t
behave in a certain way or do something because you think
the
audience will appreciate it only do something if the other
person in the scene with you makes you do it.
That way all your attention
is on the other person and you react
according to what they are giving you.
Are they ignoring you?
What’s your point of view about that?
Then communicate that point of view to them.
Are they smothering you?
What’s your point of view about that?
Then communicate that point of view to them.
Are they manipulating you?
What’s your point of view about that?
Then communicate that point of view to them.
Go to their BEHAVIOR.
The Meisner Technique of
Acting is all about reading BEHAVIOR
not about what words are written on a page.
So go to the behavior of
your working partner and give them your
point of view.
If you do your homework,
that is understanding your given
circumstances, who your are, where you are, what’s just
happened, what your fighting for in this scene, what the
stakes
are, who this person in this scene is to you, then all you
have
to do is come on stage or onto set or into the audition
room and
leave your circumstances at the door because they are now
in you
and simply place all your attention on your partner whilst
doing
your doing.
This is one acting tip from
the Meisner Technique of Acting that
is guaranteed to improve your skills and abilities as an
actor.
To your acting success
Leanne Mauro
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