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List of illustrations xi
About this book xiii
Preface xxi
Acknowledgements xxviii
Introduction 1
The Four Paths 2
Education 12
Part 1 The Foundations 15
1 Complexes 17
Formation of Complexes 20
Well-known Complexes 21
Jesus and Judas 22
2 Awareness 27
Why do we have visible and invisible thoughts? 30
The boy and the Mars Bar 31
Mushrooms 32
The Model of Awareness and creating a character 36
Emerging Awareness 38
3 Events 43
What is an Event? 44
The Event Graph 47
Events and the actor's life 48
Foreburn and Afterburn 50
Unexpected Events and beautiful acting 52
Accumulated Events 55
Mindquakes 56
Events and Unfinished Thinking 56
4 Purposes 59
The formation of Purposes: Mind Erosions 62
The seven qualities of a Purpose 64
The 'cinema screen' metaphor 69
Different types of Purposes 71
Fluidity of Purposes 74
The Super-Purpose and Unity of Purposes in a script 75
Conflict 76
5 The Formation of Consciousness 78
The Natural Frame of Reference (NFR) 79
Prenatal 80
People in charge (PiCs) 81
Awareness and Self-Conditioning 86
Non-Biological 90
Emerging Awareness 93
Somatic 93
6 Mindprint 95
Warning 96
The character's Mindprint 97
1 Ultimate Communion Event (UC) 99
2 Shame Events (ShE) 100
3 Sex Events (SxE) 100
4 Life Events (LE) 101
5 People Events (PE) 102
6 (Ghouls and) Ghosts (Gh) 103
7 Auto Directives (AD) 104
8 Adjusters (Adj) 104
9 Mental Statements (MS) 105
10 Guidelines (GL) 105
11 Objectives (O) 107
12 Purposes (P) 108
13 Self Events (SE) 108
14 Super-Purpose (SP) 109
15 Germ (G) 110
Some examples of Mindprints 110
7 Actions 113
Qualities of Actions115
Devices 117
Main Actions and acting 119
Acting and the state of mind 120
List of Actions 122
8 Finishing-off Thinking 124
Questions for Finishing-off Thinking 127
Going Limp 129
I want to want ... 132
Foreburning and Afterburning 132
Further tools for Finishing-off Thinking 133
9 Tempo-Rhythm 136
How do we pick up other people's pictures? 137
Clapping custard 139
Eyes, falling in love and Tempo-rhythm 141
Part 2 Qualities of an Actor 143
10 Imagination 145
Creating a character 146
Different types of Imagination 150
I can relate 154
'I' and the character 156
11 Attention 158
Different types of Attention 160
The Dot of Attention 162
Attention and creating a character 164
Creative Attention 168
The Five Ws 169
12 Free Body 171
Natural and Acquired Tensions 172
Awarely and Unawarely Acquired Tensions T73
Tensions and the character 174
13 Talent 177P
Part 3 Working on a Script 183
14 The Ten Steps 185
Beginning of analysis (Steps 1-3) 186
Character analysis and actor's contemplation (Steps 4-8) 193
Standing up (Steps 9 and 10) 204
A Marriage Proposal Anton Chekhov 213
Author's Afterword 226
Final Word 228
Appendix 1 List of Purposes and their definitions 231
Appendix 2 List of Actions 242
Appendix 3 The Ten Steps table 245
Glossary 247
Notes and bibliography 254
Index 259
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