ABSTRACT
Much of what we do as actors is involved with personalizing our work. That is, making the imaginary leap into the character’s shoes believable and important to us. So we seek ways to strengthen the given and invented circumstances and our involvement in the story. The techniques that follow are called intensifiers because they can help us take aspects of characterization and personalization that may seem only mildly important at first and make them critical in our experience. These are tools of the actor’s trade that help us care more about our imaginary circumstances and character relationships. And if we care deeply about the circumstance and act on that amplified need, the audience will care about us.
