Friends of The Actors’ Temple

18/12/2025

How are you going to be the best actor you can be?

Intentions for Actors workshop in 2026 -
Join us and let’s make some noise in the New Year - TOGETHER! ♥️

WE ARE STRONGER!

Online zoom workshop

Eventbrite link in the comments below

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27/11/2025

**Meisner Technique with Nicole Gaskell - Coach, Teacher, Actor every Saturday & Monday via Actors Coaching International** -

*Repetition or Independent Activities Saturdays from 1:15 pm
*Rep / Beyond Rep on Mondays 12:30 pm

Forthcoming dates are open to book and you are invited to join us:
*Saturday the 29th at 1:15pm* & - 3 spaces left!!
*Monday the 1st of Dec at 12:30 pm* - 1 space left!!

Class flavour:
•⁠ ⁠Real Meisner Repetition, slowed down
•⁠ ⁠Learning to spot what your partner is hiding (and dropping your own mask too)
•⁠ ⁠Zero performance, just presence, acceptance, and honest play

📩 Bookings: [email protected]

10/11/2025

What can I say to young people today? My silence is my best answer. I've been
teaching for thirty-eight years. A reasonable percentage of it has been successful.
All in all, however, it is a profession of futility. You're constantly turning out rea-
sonably well-trained people who could be efficient actors within their own scope.
We turn them out in a continuous stream. Where do they go? What happens to
their hopes and what happens to their wishes? What happens to the amount of seri-
ous work that was put into their training and the serious work on their part trying
to master the training? I don't know how you can come to a positive answer.
I don't think there can be a theatre in this country unless it is put back where it
belongs. That's got to be out of the profit system and allowed to function the way
something functions when it depends on natural evolution and organic growth. The
universities have theatres that cost thousands of dollars. Everything moves up and
down and sideways. And what do they do? They start with Oedipus and go up
from there. Their repertoire knows no limitations. They make me very angry be-
cause I wouldn't play one of the last Sonatas of Beethoven. The kids who think it is
fun to act should not be permitted publically to play Shakespeare.
Teaching-the way I teach-is a terribly wearying profession of futility. I know
more truly gifted people who can't get a job-who are waiters, and so on. It is very
depressing. And I try to get them to give it up. Well, that's like trying to get some-
one to give up living. So what can I think? I can't be an optimist. I'd be a fool if I
were. It's not good. But then, the whole country's not so good either. And the life of
the theatre is a pretty accurate reflection of the larger life outside. (Sanford Meisner 1976)

08/11/2025

ACTORS: places available on Fri 10-1pm classes in Meisner Technique which run on a monthly continuous enrolment basis. The next block begins 5 Dec. DM me if interested or write to [email protected]

08/11/2025

ACTORS: places available on the Tues 2-6pm 2nd Term Meisner Technique 1st Year Training Programme Actors East East London.

This will suit anyone who's completed an Introduction Week in the Technique AND who's progressed in the training to a point where they are engaging with 'independent activities and knocks at the door'. Each term is 6 weeks long. There are 3 terms remaining and the minimum commitment would be for a term, but ideally for the duration.
I'm happy to chat to anyone interested in person at [email protected]

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