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Larry Silverberg

The Sanford Meisner Approach

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  • Gloria Nanfukahas quoted6 years ago
    Artists must be sacrificed to their art.
    Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    chapter eleven
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    words of the play.
    Larry: Do this a few
  • Gloria Nanfukahas quoted6 years ago
    Sit down to work.
    Close your eyes and get in touch with your circumstances.
    Say the doing to yourself.
    Then start the beat using only the
  • Gloria Nanfukahas quoted6 years ago
    do that exercise again, in the same way — with one addition. After you start talking to each other and when I see you get grounded in the doings, I will say, “Go to the words.” When I tell you to do that, begin the words from the script, allowing the words from the script to ride on whatever is happening in that moment. Does that mak
  • Gloria Nanfukahas quoted6 years ago
    helped them move past explaining themselves or questioni
  • Gloria Nanfukahas quoted6 years ago
    Tell me the truth Edna, you tell me the
  • Gloria Nanfukahas quoted6 years ago
    your circumstances in your mind, then open your eyes and look at your partner.
    (Nyle and Miryame close their eyes, and after about a minute, they open eyes and look at each other.)
    Larry: Nyle, demand the truth from Edna.
  • Gloria Nanfukahas quoted6 years ago
    Larry: Let’s do the exercise. I want you both to close your eyes, go ove
  • Gloria Nanfukahas quoted6 years ago
    Keep talking, do not stop.
    No pauses — keep talking.
    If you don’t have the words, keep talking.
    Allow yourself to say whatever comes out of your mouth.
    Do not censor anything.
    As you talk, say the doing you are working on, to your partner.
    If you get stuck, this is another good time to “say the doing.”
  • Gloria Nanfukahas quoted6 years ago
    Nyle, you might say “Tell me the truth!” and Miryame, you could simply say, “Back off!” This will remind you what you are
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