- Foreword Pam Ferris
- A Practical Guide
- Health and Safety Warnings
1 Introductions
- Curriculum Vitae
- The Primacy of the Actor
- Permanent Training
2 Concepts
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- Process v. Results
- Want! Do! Feel!
- Want: Objectives
- Scene Objectives
- Through-Lines
- Super-Objectives
- Counter-Objectives
- Do: Actions
- Beats
- Obstacles
- The Hierarchy of Actions and Objectives
- Feel: Emotion
- Given Circumstances
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3 Preparation
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- The Purpose of Preparation
- Preparing the Text
- Deconstructing the Text
- Titling the Acts
- Sections
- Units
- Actions
- A Pyramid of Titles
- Preparing the rehearsals
- Casting
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4 The Work: Rehearsal, Production, Performance
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- Rehearsal: Some Basic Principles
- Strand One: The Text
- Stage One: Actioning
- Stage Two: Text – No Text – Text
- Stage Three: Feeding-In
- Stage Four: Points of Concentration
- Logic Text
- Strand Two: Character
- The Starting Point
- The Character Lists
- Character Development
- Techniques Towards Characterisation
- The Actor and the Role
- Strand Three: The World of the Play
- Discovering new Worlds
- Starting Points
- Self-Blocking
- Practice: A Handful of Dust; Marriage
- Bringing the strands together
- Production
- Performance
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5 Unclogging the work
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- Clearing the decks for action
- Bad behaviour
- Actors and directors
- Actors’ Fears
- Directors’ Fears
- Rigour
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6 Coda: Summing Up
- Recapitulation
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