A técnica Meisner e as sementes do Sistema stanislavskiano plantadas em solo americano. 2019. 183f. Tese (Doutorado em Artes Cênicas) - Escola de Comunicações e Artes, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 2019. Esta tese propôs o estudo teórico da técnica Meisner, observando suas origens e as relações com o Sistema de Stanislavski. O objetivo dessa pesquisa foi analisar passo-apasso a técnica meisneriana para esclarecer quais são os procedimentos criados por ela e qual a sua filiação com o Sistema. O estudo questionou as possíveis origens dos seguintes procedimentos meisnerianos: o exercício da repetição, a atividade, o bater na porta, a preparação emocional, as imitações, impedimentos e o trabalho com cenas. Após esse panorama foi feita uma análise que estabelece paralelismos e distinções da técnica Meisner com alguns procedimentos do Sistema, apontando pontos de contato e inflexão entre eles, tais como: comunhão, círculo de atenção, memória afetiva, as circunstâncias propostas, o \"se mágico\" e o étude, mas constatou também diferenças significativas. Concluimos que dois elementos da técnica, apesar de inspirados em Stanislavski, foram criados por Meisner: o exercício da repetição e a preparação emocional. / The Meisner Technique and the Seeds on American Soil Planted by the Stanislavskian Sistem. 2019. 183p. Thesis (Doctorate in Theater) - School of Comunications and Arts, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, 2019. This thesis proposes the theorical study of the Meisner technique, observing its origins and relations with the Stanislavski\'s Sistem. The goal of this research was to analyse step by step the meisnerian technique and clarify which are the procedures created by it, and how is it related to the Sistem. The study questioned the possible origins of the following meisnerian procedures: the repetition exercise, the activity, the knocking on the door, the emotional preparation, imitation, impediments and the work with scenes. After this panorama, was made an analysis that stablished distinctions and paralelisms between the Meisner technique and some procedures of the Sistem, pointing spots of contact and inflexion between them, such as: communion, circle of attention, affective memory, given circunstances, the \"magic if\" and the étude, but found also significative differences. This theses concludes that two elements of the Meisner technique, besides being inspired by Stanislavski, were created by Meisner: the repetition exercise and the emotional preparation.

The Taming of the Shrew is an early comedy that exposes the oddities we take for granted: curious conventions, wild assumptions, gender roles, relationships, social status, fashion, and everything else we know so defectively. The given circumstances of the script and Petruchio are specific in choice, yet broad in interpretation. Petruchio, the catalyst behind Katherine’s character arc, needed to not only be believable in his ways, but likeable by the audience. This thesis examines the process required to successfully develop and bring to life the character of Petruchio to our modern audience. It includes historical background information on William Shakespeare and the origins of the play itself, Sanford Meisner’s Techniques (moment-to-moment analysis & actioning) and Konstantin Stanislavski’s system are included with the scored actor’s script, journals recorded by the actor to verify his victories and defeats during the six-week production process and critiques to support the success of the production.

The Meisner Technique emerged as a part of the realist, modern theatre of the early-Twentieth Century and extended its influence through the rest of that century, including the 1960s and 1970s when there was an explosion of various forms of postmodern performance. This work will demonstrate that while Meisner’s Technique is a part of the paradigm of modern, realist theatre, it simultaneously challenges this ideology with disruptive processes of the sort that postmodern performance instigates. It is the thesis of this work that the Meisner Technique operates according to a set of phenomenologically-aligned imperatives that create strong resonances with certain forms of postmodern performance. This establishes the dynamic wherein the Meisner Technique is able to enter into discourse with instances of the postmodern paradigm of performance. In the first three chapters I will conduct in-depth analyses of Meisner actors’ relationships with their environment, their fellow performers, and their actions from a range of phenomenological perspectives. In the fourth chapter I will apply the conclusions of these analyses to the operation of the Meisner Technique within the paradigm of modern, realist theatre. In the fifth chapter I will set a backdrop to the postmodern field and suggest the issues from this tradition with which the Meisner Technique might resonate. Chapters Six, Seven, and Eight each take one example of an artist from the postmodern field, Richard Foreman, Michael Kirby, and Robert Wilson respectively, establishes their own particular context, and suggests those processes relating to acting/performing technique that might provoke the most productive exchanges. This juxtaposition suggests the places between the practices where discourse might take root and suggests the beginnings of such dialogues.