Meisner Repetition Workshop

From : 01/10/2022

To : 01/19/2022

Start time : 1:00 PM

End time : 3:00 PM

Theatre Group : INDRIYAAN THEATRE GROUP

Faculty : Ashwin Agrawal

Venue : zoom online

The "Repetition Exercise" or the 'Repetition Word Game's purpose is to emphasize spontaneity and greater listening between actors, and to shift the actor's attention away from their own self-consciousness and onto the other actor in the exercise.

Sanford Meisner's shift away from Strasberg's techniques led him to seek and develop new ways of training and performing; techniques that emphasized instincts and spontaneity, rather than past memories. His collection of interdependent training exercises became known as the Meisner Technique.

One such technique is the Repetition Exercise. As the name implies, actors engage in an exercise of simple, but increasingly more complex, repetition. Often sitting across from one another, one actor makes a statement and the other actor repeats the statement.

Purpose of the Repetition Exercise.

There are several objectives that the Repetition Exercise seeks to achieve. Chief among these is to increase the actor's reliance on their instincts, or to get actors "out of their heads", as Meisner would say.

Secondly, the exercise shifts the actor's focus onto the actor with whom they are working. The actor, then, doesn't have the ability to dwell on their own self-consciousness, because they are busy focusing on the other actor.

Lastly, the Repetition Exercise reduces the importance of the words that will, eventually, come from a script. The back and forth repetition of the words trains the actor to make words less relevant. The focus, instead, shifts to acting and reacting spontaneously to what the actor's scene partner is doing in-the-moment.

Theatre Workshop Fees : 10500

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