Prague Playhouse

Meisner Acting Class Blog on “weightlessness”

October 28th, 2009 at 04:30pm boris

Hi everyone!

I’m Boris Wilke and member of the Prague Playhouse Meisner acting group. I blog about our class activities.

This entry is about how a feeling of weightlessness can make the Meisner technique a heavenly experience.

Click on the “CLASSES” button above and then choose “ACTING FOR PROFESSIONALS” to read more about the class itself and where we meet!

When a thing one does, works really well, one starts to lose one’s sense of time and space while doing it. It is a rare experience. But it can happen during a Meisner exercise as well.

“Repetition” can become effortless. You repeat without haste nor lack of patience. You connect with your partner and call all the right things, while they do the same. You get “hit” by what they tell you and both of you change the repetiton exactly when it is the right time. You become weightless.

Then with the additional weight of “doors and activities” or even scenes, “home-alones”, emotional preparation and other extra elements that can bog you down pretty badly, the feeling of weightlessness will stike you as something especially exquisite and wonderful. It only occurs, when everything is right: the urgency, the meaning, the connection, the setting, the activity itself…

I had an experience that came close to weightlessness last Monday. And these moments, rare as they are, tell me that I’m on the right track, that this unnerving Meisner business is worth its while.

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General stuff:

Our acting class consists of some fifteen new and not so new active members, who meet every Monday and Wednesday from 6.30 pm to about 8.30. We do Meisner. And the Meisner-technique really rocks!

If you want to connect with your inmost feelings, expressing them freely in an acting environment and thus getting to know yourself better and better, feel free to join us! If you do, be prepared for some serious thrills!

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About the author:

I am Boris Wilke, a German expat in Prague. I am a writer at large and have been studying Meisner since January 2008. If any of you know of any kind of acting work that befits a laddish, tall 40-year-old, please leave a note!

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