ABSTRACT
It is vital for students of active analysis to be convinced of its usefulness so that they establish the necessary creative atmosphere in rehearsals. Initially, etude rehearsals can make some participants either too self-conscious or unduly flippant, and provoke cynicism in those watching instead of creative engagement and camaraderie. A badly timed comment from the sidelines, a chuckle, or whisper can jerk the actors in the etude out of the necessary creative sense of self and lead to long-term damage. They can lose faith in what they are doing, and having lost it, inevitably turn to posing and overacting.
