The Actor’s Art and Craft: William Esper Teaches the Meisner Technique Audiobook (Free)

William Esper, one of the leading acting instructors of our period, explains and extends Sanford Meisner’s legendary technique, offering a crystal clear, concrete, step-by-step approach to learning to be a truly creative actor.Esper worked closely with Meisner for seventeen years and has spent decades developing his famous system for actor’s schooling. The result is certainly a rigorous system of exercises that builds a solid foundation of performing skills from the bottom up, and that’s flexible enough to be applied to any problem an acting professional faces, from cleaning soap operas to Shakespeare. Co-writer Damon DiMarco, a previous student of Esper’s, spent more than a 12 months observing his coach teaching first-year acting students. With this reserve he recreates that experience for us, permitting us to see how the development of exercises functions used. The Actor’s Art and Craft vividly shows that good schooling will not constrain stars’ instincts-it frees these to create character types with truthful and persuasive inner lives.