Present:
Damien, Gurpreet, Jethro, Kieran, John Paul (so talented they named him twice), Andrew, John, Nigel, Frogboy (Steve), Alex Hassell, Alan, Max, Colin, Paul (sub, 75 mins).

So, Harold Guskin wrote this book called "How To Stop Acting", and apparently there's a chapter called 'How to Stop Colin Learning His Lines'. It's a very effective technique that involves hyperventilating.
Session started with Max explaining this technique.

Alex then explained Max's explanation.

We started on Page 41. Yes, really.

We have all been rigorously applying Guskin's technique, so none of us knew our lines, so we fed.

We Meisnered.

For ages.

Frogboy (Steve) noticed that we had evolved a Meisner Mannerism of nodding approval when we stopped challenging or repeating the line. We tried to stop doing it. But it seems we love to nod. This might just be a side-effect of combining the repetition with feeding. You can't flow into the next line 'cos you don't know what it is, and you have to signal that the rally has ended so that your feeder can sidle up and nibble your ear.

Then we were allowed just one go at each line.

Then coffee.

After coffee we were given the instruction to use the line to correct everyone's misunderstanding of us, or misinterpretation of our intentions.

After a warm-up period, we got a bit more explicit.

"I notice that you think...... so I say......"

After a while, we changed jobs. Fed Folk get to practice reading the script, Feeders, instead of feeding, become the Voice of Paranoia. "They think you're too...", or "They think you're not.....enough" before they spoke their lines, which of course informs how they say the line. We tried a multilayer continual stream of paranoia whether your PART-ner was speaking or listening. This, like so much in my life at the moment, was beyond me.

It was enjoyable, though, and good practice.