ABSTRACT
Michael Chekhov and Sanford Meisner: Collisions and Convergence in Actor Training offers a comprehensive analysis of the Sanford Meisner Acting Technique in comparison to the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique.
This compilation reveals the connections as well as the contradictions between these two very different approaches, while highlighting meaningful bridges and offering in-depth essays from a variety of sources, including master teachers with years of experience and new and rising stars in the field. The authors provide philosophical arguments on actor training, innovative approaches to methodology, and explorations into integration, as well as practical methods of application for the classroom or rehearsal room, or scaffolded into a curriculum.
Michael Chekhov and Sanford Meisner: Collisions and Convergence in Actor Training is an excellent resource for professors teaching Introductory, Intermediate or Advanced Acting Technique as well as acting program directors and department chairs seeking new, impactful research on actor training.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|26 pages
The Masters
part II|44 pages
Expeditions in Deep Training
chapter 5|9 pages
Teaching the Michael Chekhov Technique in an Undergraduate Program
part III|92 pages
Methods in Convergence
chapter 10|13 pages
Meisner in the Classroom, Chekhov in Rehearsal
part IV|70 pages
Techniques in Practice
chapter 17|12 pages
Listening and Responding with the Body
chapter 19|14 pages
A Psychophysical Path to Moment-to-Moment: The Gift of a Lifetime
part V|10 pages
Continued Collisions and Strategies for the Future