Miranda Harcourt: The script, story and character - Online Masterclass

Receiving a script is only the beginning. What happens next? How do we transform words on a page into a truthful, compelling performance? And how can you step seamlessly from yourself into the life of the character? In this 90 minute session, Miranda will take participants through her approach to script analysis and character preparation, sharing the practical tools she uses to unlock a script and build a performance from the inside out. She will discuss finding and trusting the tiny adjustments embedded in the script and story, about pathways to finding the beats and about the nature of character versus self. Miranda Harcourt Globally renowned as a performance-pilot, not only does Miranda support stars at the highest level, but also guides emerging talents into stellar careers. Her clients have won and been nominated for Oscars, Golden Globes, Emmys, BAFTAs and AAFTAs. She has lifted up countless careers for actors and emerging directors through her work at labs and schools like TIFF, NYU Tisch, the London Film School and UK’s National Film and Television School.Miranda shifts paradigms, empowering actors and directors to realise and activate their own talent. Whether it is on-set, in rehearsal or in her active masterclasses specifically developed for Zoom, she introduces simple, fast, innovative approaches and tools that get actors to where they need to be, fast. A pioneering practitioner of verbatim, Miranda is currently in rehearsal for AFTER GOD, written and co-directed by Stuart McKenzie, a new play that transforms complex ideas and verbatim voices into a theatrical experience that is moving, provocative, surprising and genuinely funny.You can read more about the startling impact of Miranda’s key tools including Connection, Internal Landscape in her on-line textbook NOTES FOR ACTORS AND DIRECTORS mirandaharcourt.substack.com