ABSTRACT
To think something to think wonderful things can often come out of intense and meticulous rehearsals. That is good, but unfortunately many actors stop there and feel that they have done their bit, and the rest is up to the audience. This leads to the actor's having a better time in performance than the audience has in watching them. The solution is to do something, anything, rather than just to think. The more inventive the piece of business is in revealing the change of inner thoughts, the better the audience likes it. There is bad news. Audiences are not mind readers. In real-life conversations, when we change the subject we usually also change our mannerisms. For example, the neighbor will exchange pleasantries about the weather, before hitching up his trousers and getting to the real reason he stopped to talk, to complain about the noisy music.
