Meisner Text Intensive with Kate Maravan

Meisner Text Intensive with Kate Maravan - 
Wed 5th August | 10:30am–5:30pm

This one-day intensive is an opportunity to apply the core Meisner exercise of repetition and movement to working with text.

Together, we’ll explore how to bring greater presence, authentic connection, spontaneity and impulse to scripted scenes, allowing the text to come alive through genuine moment-to-moment experience rather than predetermined choices.

Too often, when we work with text, we slip back into familiar acting habits—trying to decide in advance how a scene should be played instead of allowing our partner, the circumstances and the moment to reveal what is actually happening between the characters. This workshop is about discovering how to live truthfully under imaginary circumstances, using the principles of the Meisner Technique to unlock fresh, honest and surprising performances.

Participants will receive a scene in advance of the workshop to prepare and, ideally, learn by heart. Throughout the day, we’ll investigate a variety of approaches to opening up the scene, making in-the-moment discoveries, deepening our connection to our scene partner, and finding a more playful, truthful and spontaneous relationship with the text.

This intensive is suitable for actors with some experience of the Meisner Technique who are ready to explore how its principles can transform their work with scripted material.