The foundation of acting is the "reality of doing" 

This is a test to check out how difficult this is; if I can do it there is no excuse.

Notes from Stella Adler documentary

Not acting words – but ideas

Must develop a sense of style

Research and costume

(A responsibility to “find” your business)

Mind body voice – technical skills – develop the actor

Make her understand there is something more important than what she is saying

Action – emotional objective

Good text – Eugene O’Neil Long Day’s journey into night

Influence of the Moscow Art Theatre; subtle truthful acting

Cultural and economic context

Imagination v emotional memories

Dramatic sense of the author – importance of the script

Scream

Sees her job as building confidence in the actor

Be free – listen to the birds – bring out the smallest sounds

Don’t be passive (just reading the lines)

What is the momentum of the scene? Has to be your soul, act with your soul,

Listen with your blood

Huge responsibility in life is to take life “completely”

Nothing in theatre is PERSONAL theatre is for the WORLD

USE improvisation

Be ruthless – abandon?