Meisner, Method and Madness


Lessons are focused on immersing students fully in the technique and there is plenty of weight placed on teaching skills that can be used on any acting endeavour or assignment.

Created By

Maxim P

Intermediate, Advanced
Acting for the Stage

6 HOURS

6 LESSONS

Meisner, Method and Madness

skill-acquisition

Course Overview



Want to develop your acting and gain some skills and techniques to make your performance realistic and engaging? Then you will love this course. Students will receive a practical-acting 'tool kit' to enable them to approach their performances with ease and confidence. They will be assigned a character and a scene and will be instructed on how to approach it, leading to a final performance at the end of the programme. The course is taught by an actor who trained at one of London's leading drama schools and is knowledgeable and insightful about the craft of acting. If you want to find ways to explore your talents and enhance them through a variety of techniques, then this is the course for you. There is a strong emphasis during lessons on truly immersing students in the discipline and by the final class, they will have picked up a range of different skills that they can employ in their acting.

Course Content



6 LESSONS

6 HOURS Total Length

Lesson 1

Setting the Scene: Moving Away From 'Method' to Meisner

60 minutes

Lesson 2

Building a Foundation: Meisner's 'The Reality of Doing'

60 minutes

Lesson 3

'The Pinch and the Ouch': Finding the Impulse to Speak in a Text

60 minutes

Lesson 4

Repetition Exercises: Freeing Yourself From the Form

60 minutes

Lesson 5

Scene Study: Working in Pairs on a Script With Direction

60 minutes

Lesson 6

Sharing of the Course's Work: Feedback

60 minutes

Key Skills


Performance

Confidence

Meisner Techniques

Acting Theory

Educator


Maxim P

Humanities Specialist

Maxim has over 500 hours of experience teaching privately, including 350 hours of A-level experience and 150 university-level one-to-one hours. He has also given mock interviews and tutorials to over 50 Oxbridge applicants over the last three years, and in 2020, three of the students gained offers from Oxbridge.