Sanford Meisner on Acting

De: Sanford Meisner, Dennis Longwell, Sydney Pollack - introduction

Narrado por: Jason Culp, Arthur Morey, Mark Bramhall

Sanford Meisner was one of the best known and beloved teachers of acting in the country. This audiobook follows one of his acting classes for fifteen months, beginning with the most rudimentary exercises and ending with affecting and polished scenes from contemporary American plays. Written in collaboration with Dennis Longwell, it is essential listening for beginning and professional actors alike. Throughout this audiobook Meisner is a delight—always empathizing with his students and urging them onward, provoking emotion, laughter, and growing technical mastery from his charges.

With an introduction by Sydney Pollack, director of Out of Africa and Tootsie, who worked with Meisner for five years.

"This book should be read by anyone who wants to act or even appreciate what acting involves. Like Meisner's way of teaching, it is the straight goods."—Arthur Miller

"If there is a key to good acting, this one is it, above all others. Actors, young and not so young, will find inspiration and excitement in this book."—Gregory Peck


Read by Jason Culp, Arthur Morey, and Mark Bramhall

It's a live class with Meisner!

It takes you there. I just finished listening to this and I feel as if I went to class with San in person. I took Meisner class in NYCDA first year out of highscool and this book took me back to my roots. The reader did an amazing job translating the message and differiantiating characters to perfection. Great listen to open up your acting mind and lay a solid foundation with a technique to prep you for any character work. I highly recommend it!

New Actors

Even for my newbie self, this is inviting and still structured enough for me. Wonderful

Surprisingly outstanding as an audiobook

I didn't realize that the book is largely the story of one of Meisner's classes told as dialogue with specific examples. The effect was stunning. One suggestion, however: don't listen to it all at once, otherwise you're essentially digesting a year-long course for professional actors in a matter of weeks/days. I would say take a chapter a week. I definitely spaced out and didn't get the full benefit in that sense. But seriously. Give it a listen.

Just like Sandy teaching you himself!!

This was a great book, mainly due to the fact that it was the first I’ve ever read of its kind! I love the way in which it reads out the dialogues of the actual classes themselves and in this format, you end up learning a lot easier in my opinion.
GREAT BOOK 10/10 DEFINITELY GIVE IT A READ!

Love it

best audiobook on acting out there, highly suggested to anyone who wants to start acting.

Great Listen - Solid Technique Instruction

it's as if... you were taking the class with him directly... you'll be able to apply this to some of your theatre/film work.

As someone who was a performance major in college, this should be standard with any university teaching of the Meisner Technique. My dislike originally might have come from my instructor not understanding some of the things Sandy had to enlighten his students on. I think any person learning techniques of acting would benefit from the process the students go through as the "story" develops, as this is very standard for collegiate technical development. If you've taken classes/masterclasses before- you'll see your fellow classmates, as well as yourself, reflected through the work presented in this book.

interesting how to book

Instead of tell how to act it was as if you were in his class listening in.

Best audio book I've heard so far!

It felt like being in the classroom with Sandy and being one of the students. I can't wait to hear it again.

Loved it

Wonderful. It made me re-examine my approach in my work and inspire me to dig deeper.

lovely reading of Meisner's book

I really enjoyed listening to this audio book! I also own the hard copy of this book and it was nice to have both so I could reference the text. Good Stuff!