Sanford Meisner on acting / Sanford Meisner and Dennis Longwell ; introduction by Sydney Pollack.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, [1987]Copyright date: ©1987Edition: First editionDescription: xix, 252 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0394750594
- 9780394750590
- 792.028 19
- 792.028 23
- PN2061 .M38 1987
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 792.028 MEI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Long Overdue (Lost) Issued | 01/06/2024 | A506760B |
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"A Vintage original"--Title page verso.
Introduction by Sydney Pollack -- Setting the scene: Duse's blush -- Building a foundation: the reality of doing -- The pinch and the ouch -- The knock on the door -- Beyond repetition -- Preparation: "In the harem of my head" -- Improvisation -- More on preparation: "Quick as a flame" -- The magic "as if" : particularization -- "Making the part your own" -- Some thoughts on actors and on acting -- Final scenes: "Instead of 'merely' the truth" -- "Spring Awakening" by Frank Wedekind -- "A Palm Tree in a Rose Garden" by Meade Roberts -- "Golden Boy" by Clifford Odets -- "The Seagull" by Anton Chekov -- "Summer and Smoke" by Tennessee Williams.
Taking readers step-by-step through the most basic acting exercises to critiques of performances in scenes from contemporary American plays, this volume follows a class of eight at the Neighborhood Playhouse, where Meisner has taught for fifty years.
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