ABSTRACT
If you’ve been going over this material with a class or if you’ve been applying it in rehearsal, you may have had the opportunity to receive feedback from teachers, directors and classmates. Sometimes a surprising thing can happen. You might pick an objective, like “I want to kill you.” Specific. Clear. Direct. No problem. You play the moment and your director suggests, “Why don’t you try to kill him?” as if that were a new idea, and you feel like killing yourself. Nearly every actor has something like this happen, at some point, and it can be quite upsetting since it suggests that nothing you were thinking was being communicated. Frustrating.
