My Character Wouldn't Do That by Donna Soto-Morettini;

Author:Donna Soto-Morettini;
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Bloomsbury UK

Turn your preparation on its head to keep your options open

Generally, when actors are working on a script by themselves, they rely on convergent thinking to narrow down possibilities. You will want ideas to start with, of course, but remember that convergent thinking at this point can also work against you. Narrowing things down in our preparation can make us miss exciting opportunities that might be afforded to us once we get into a room, working with and watching other people. Other characters ‘create’ our character, and we ‘create’ theirs through the ways that we see them and the ways in which they see us. Staying open to opportunities as we work with others means bringing a lot of options into the room. This is the point where we still want to be in using divergent and lateral thinking. If we can do this, we will be alive to all the possibilities that are created in a collaborative art.

The usual preparation looks like an inverted triangle. We seem to begin with observations, then many questions, and then we refine all of that down into some decisions. For example, for an actor playing Hamlet, and thinking about Act III, scene 1, with Ophelia, the inverted triangle might look like this:

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