A repeat of last year's sell-out workshop with director, producer and actor Stephen Bayly

 ‘Take it from a Director.  If you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained you’ve been blessed.’ Elia Kazan

A one-day introduction to the methods of Sanford Meisner, as used by actor/director Sidney Pollock, writer/director David Mamet, etc. to draw truthful emotionally rich performances from their actors, whether on stage or screen. 

Meisner is increasingly being taught in British drama schools and a generation of young actors are growing up with skills with which many of us are unfamiliar. Guild member Stephen Bayly’s workshop will offer an alternative to Method Acting, and teach directors to work with Meisner-trained actors to ‘personalise’ the text as a way of bringing it to life.

Unbeknownst to many of us in Britain, many of America’s most dynamic and watchable screen actors have been trained by Meisner (Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Robert Duvall, Joanne Woodward, Jon Voight, Leonardo DiCaprio, Dianne Keaton, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, William H. Macy, to mention a few). How do these actors work?  How can directors use these techniques to get more honest and intense performances from their own cast? Fellow Stephen Bayly’s workshop will offer an alternative to Method Acting, and teach directors to help actors ‘personalise’ the text as a way of bringing it to life.

Stephen Bayly has produced such films as Richard III and Mrs. Dalloway and has directed, among other things, the Cannes sleeper hit Coming Up Roses. He was Director of the National Film and Television School. Stephen has studied Sanford Meisner’s methods intensively for five years at The Actors Temple in London, and now teaches directors regularly in Cuba, Nigeria, Spain, London, and The Screen Academy Wales and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Further information about Meisner and Stephen Bayly HERE.

Date:      Saturday 30th October 2010

Venue:   The Etcetera Theatre, 265 Camden High Street, London NW1 7BU

Time:      10.15 am – 5.15 pm (with lunch break)

Lunch break is from 1-2 pm; food is not provided but there are plenty of good places to eat in Camden.

Booking: Places are limited.

£65 for non-members
£45 for Directors Guild members & concessions (student/unwaged/OAP - proof required)
£30 for Directors Guild student members

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WORKSHOP TICKET OPTIONS - 25 places

Guild Member / Concession £45.00 Non-Member £65.00 Guild Student Member £30.00

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Cancellation Policy: If you are unable to attend for any reason we will refund your full payment less an administration charge of £10 up to the 20th of October. Thereafter we will deduct 25% of the cost of your place. From 72 hours before the event commences we will have to deduct the full price of your place. If we cancel the event, we will refund the full cost of your place, except under circumstances caused by Act of God or terrorism.