Guidepost 6: Discoveries -- Major Points

Guidepost 6: Discoveries -- Major Points

Overview Michael Shurtleff explains, "Every scene is filled with discoveries, things that happen for the first time. There is something new about this experience, this moment." This post will take you through his guidepost on Discoveries.

Major Points

• The discoveries may be about the other character, or about oneself, or about someone who is offstage, or about the situation now or the situation as it existed ten years ago and how that affects the now.

• The more discoveries you make in a scene, the more interesting your scene will be.
• Make an emotional discovery as often as you can find one in every scene.
• Ask yourself: What is new?
• You’ve got to make important life-and-death choices every time you read! You can’t afford these everyday choices, or someone else will get the part.
• A good play is a mirror of the way human beings behave. The actor’s job is to provide what is underneath the behavior of human beings.
• When there is need, there is warmth generated.
• Actors need to work from real-life situations, not literary or character concepts.

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