ABSTRACT
One might worry that our ideas will not be accepted, that someone will reject his new thoughts as silly or irrelevant. This fear leads to actors taking out insurance-by only half doing an idea until they get permission to do the full thing. This means that if the idea is rejected, then only a bit of the idea has been rejected, and the artist can continue to rehearse without loss of face or status. Audience members have spent a lot of their day being safe: not telling their boss or a customer what they really thought about them or doing what was expected of them rather than what they wanted to do or even knew would be best to do. After all, rehearsal is a place for trying things out, but if you ask for permission first, the natural instinct of a director can be to reject it.
