ABSTRACT
Skills are the specific, recognizable part of an actor’s work made evident in performance. Before there are skills, there is process. Process is the way in which an actor goes about discovering what it is performance skills should be applied to. There is no one process and, indeed, finding the right process for the right circumstance is itself a skill. Most actors work eclectically, using whatever elements of process seem to have worked for them over the years. But probably the most fundamental and commonly acknowledged, if not agreed upon, basic process is that of Stanislavski.
