Acting by Mistake Book

	Forward	9
	Introduction	11
	Where to Use Your Imagination	15
	Using Acting By Mistake	18
	In Rehearsal	19
	In Auditions	21
	In Performance	25
	What You Must Do	28
	Don't do it unless you must	30
	A Grain of Truth	31
	Stop Listening to Yourself	33
	How to Begin	35
	Go Alone	41
	Remove Your Protections	43
	Inside Protection	47
	The Way Out	50
	Another Way Out Or How to Learn Your Lines	53
	Outside Protection	57
	Seven Ways Out	59
	Pacing Protection	60
	The Way Out	62
	Movement Protection	66
	Performance Protection	72
	The Way Out	75
	Decisions	77
	One Final Note	81
	Surviving	82
	Follow Through	85
	Don't Explain. Don't Interpret ... Just Tell It	89
	Trust	92
	Positive Energy	94
	John Ford Noonan	96
	Additional Positives	99
	Repetition	102
	A Paradox	105
	There Are No Rules to Creativity	107
	Jeffery Posson	109
	The Character Leap	111
	Be Flexible	114
	Belief	115
	Surviving Bad Directors	118
	The Non-Communicative Director	119
	The Director Who Directs Everything	121
	The Histrionic Screamer	123
	The Early Career-or Inexperienced Director	124
	The Incompetent Director	128
	A Workbook of Clues	129
	The Power of the Script	132
	The Full Stretch	134
	A Neat Little Package	136
	Looking Better When You're Ill	139
	Finding a Needle in a Haystack	140
	The Mini-Lesson	142
	Afterword	144