ABSTRACT
There are some actors who achieve great results purely by instinct and others who approach a part with intellectual discussion and endless debate, bringing scholastic knowledge and background research to the rehearsal process. Each actor, in her own way, can produce a wonderful performance, and there is no universally accepted better way to approach a part. The intellectual can be accused of time wasting by the instinctive actor, but the audience will probably have no idea how each actor had approached her part, and even if they did, will not care. There is always a danger that actor's intellect will be over-eager to prevent them from doing something interesting. Actors have to learn to get rid of their gremlin, or at least not listen to its seductive whine of safety and boredom. Conversely, an actor who cannot deliver a quality performance without detailed background knowledge and research then be undaunted in striving for this.
