Between Director and Actor: Strategies for Effective Performance Book

	Acknowledgments	xi
	Introduction	xiii
	For the Director
	Giving Notes	1
	For the Actor
	Taking Notes	7
	The Notes
	Structuring the Scene	11
	Energize the beginning of the scene	11
	Make the exposition active	13
	Don't play the ending	15
	Tell the story	17
	Trust the text	20
	Build the sequence or speech	22
	Separate your thoughts	24
	Make the transition	26
	Find the action when telling a story about the past	29
	Make the realization	31
	Finish the scene	33
	Vocal Clarity	36
	Emphasize key words	36
	Drive energy through to the end of the line	39
	Build vocally	40
	Don't overstress words	42
	Clean up your diction	44
	Physical Clarity	47
	Make the blocking your own	47
	Open up physically	49
	Give focus/take focus	51
	Find economy	54
	Loosen up	56
	Control your physical choices	58
	Commitment	62
	You are holding back emotionally	62
	Take a risk	65
	You are thinking too much	68
	You are monitoring your performance	70
	Connect with your scene partner	72
	Include the audience	74
	Find the vulnerability	77
	Give your character more status	79
	Take the stage	81
	Take control	84
	Depth and Variety	86
	Raise the stakes	86
	Look for the opposite	89
	Look for the humor	91
	Find the antithesis	93
	Use more variety in your choices	95
	Use the images	97
	Differentiate your characters when playing multiple roles	100
	Pace and Flow	104
	Act on the lines, not in between them	104
	Earn the pause	106
	Pick up the pace	108
	Don't rush	110
	Enter/exit dynamically	112
	Set up the laugh	115
	Play through to the crest of the laughter or applause	118
	Believability	121
	Invent the words	121
	Follow your impulse	123
	Relate to your character	125
	Concentrate on the action, not on the emotion	127
	Find the sincerity in an emotional moment	129
	Make the discovery	132
	Don't anticipate the moment	133
	You are working too hard	135
	Don't anticipate the laugh	137
	Commit to the ad lib	139
	Tone down your expressions	141
	Know the world of the play	143
	Rehearsal Problems	147
	You are setting choices too early	147
	Do your homework	149
	Go back to your script	151
	Invest energy into the rehearsal	154
	Learn to like your role	156
	You are beating yourself up	158
	Leave personal problems outside the rehearsal space	160
	Moving into the Theatre	164
	Performance Notes	171
	Conversations with Directors	180
	Libby Appel	180
	Anne Bogart	182
	Scott Ellis	184
	D. Scott Glasser	187
	Joseph Hanreddy	188
	Bill Rauch	190
	Conversations with Actors	193
	Andre De Shields	193
	Boyd Gaines	195
	Debra Monk	196
	Linda Purl	198
	Karen Ziemba	200
	Glossary	203