ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a new set of exercises for coaching actors when working on productions that are non-traditionally staged in arenas, thrusts, allies, or site-specific productions. In the round staging is in many ways more intimate, more experiential for the audience than traditional Western proscenium staging. The audience can see not only the actors performing on stage, but also the other audience members who are seated across. They are watching the story unfold and other audience members' experience of the story and that becomes a part of the performance. Non-traditional stagings of productions often become less about repeating exact blocking and more about repeating an experience between scene partners, like a moment in history repeating itself with tiny variations depending on the audience/time traveller whose gaze changes the picture through the sheer active act of watching.
