Money in Your Pocket

Taking Meisner’s famous Repetition game further, Schebetta connects improvisation to the first six lines of scene work. By having students approach their scene as “an improvisation with text,” he takes the pressure off of the student perfecting the character objective, and focuses on play, which in this case, is throwing “snowballs.” Schebetta explores William Esper’s perspective, “a good objective is like money in your pocket,” which means “objectives are not something you can act … but actions are the specific building blocks of behavior upon which you achieve (or don’t achieve) your objective.”