ABSTRACT
There was a lot of trial and error, and there still is, but it soon became clear that the author's prime objective when directing a university production was to create a positive learning experience for the students. The author specialized in the acting techniques were Meisner and Michael Chekhov techniques. It became apparent that in order to achieve authors goal of creating a positive learning experience in the rehearsal room that the author would need to direct the students by emphasizing what they had already learned, or were going to learn in the classroom. It also became evident the students, both undergraduate and graduate, responded to the physical exercises with a vigor and joy that replaced the tediousness of a purely intellectual conversation. This has become the authors Active Analysis. Doing a full combination of the exercises can take between 20–25 hours of rehearsal, which may be the first week of a university rehearsal period.
