The Actor and the Target

Up: Acting

Book¹¹1 Declan Donnellan, The Actor and the Target (Theatre Communications Group, 2006). 

I have read this book, but not put this into practice just yet. So far, it feels vague and not readily usable.

Six rules:

• There is always a target.
• The target always exists outside, at a measurable distance.
• The target exists before you need it.
• The target is always specific.
• The target is always transforming.
• The target is always active.

The stakes have a double rule (split target):

• At every living moment there is something to be lost and something to be won.
• The thing to be won is precisely the same size as the thing to be lost.