Mention the name ‘Sanford Meisner’ to many of those with even the most undeveloped interest in acting, and they are likely to think of the guru and teacher who practically changed the face of the art.

And the late American – who died in 1997 – may have been exposed in his formative years to what we now know as method acting, but the school of acting thought he ushered in himself turned out to be something very different.

What do I mean by that? I am, of course, referring to the…