Meisner Technique Workshop

Developed by Sanford Meisner at the Neighbourhood Playhouse in New York between the 1930s and 80s, the Meisner technique is a fluid acting technique which encourages you to discover fresh moments with your fellow actors as you play rather than stick to a rigid intellectual interpretation of a scene.

Understanding and working with Meisner’s exercises will spice up your acting with truth and spontaneity, sharpen your essential acting skills, introduce an exciting way of working to your actor’s tool kit, reveal a fun, instinctive way to establish and practice real communication.

On the first session you’ll learn and begin playing with Meisner’s famous repetition exercise. You’ll be introduced to your scene partner and a short scene which you’ll need to learn in your own time for the following week.

On the following sessions we’ll explore how Meisner’s technique applies to a script. After time to run through lines with your partner, you’ll explore your scene in a master class format with your facilitator’s coaching in front of the rest of the group, enabling you to understand the technique through activity and observation. The day will culminate with a final sharing of all the scenes with opportunity for you to feedback and ask any further questions.

The drama course is spread over 4 weekly sessions of 2 hours each. We keep group sizes small in order for the facilitator to give you a lot of individual feedback to encourage an intimate, friendly, and fun atmosphere in which you can learn and grow.