TEA - The Everyday Actor - Performance Mastery

As the actor, you’ve read the script, so you know how the scene ends. Your character hasn’t lived through it yet. If you anticipate the rejection or disappointment before it happens, your tone, body language, and gestures can reveal the ending before your character discovers it.

In this coaching session, the character wants her parents to understand who she has become. She has some apprehension about how to communicate her new sense of self, but she wholeheartedly hopes and believes they will receive her with open arms.

She isn’t sharing her truth to expose their toxicity. She discovers their toxicity while trying to be understood. That discovery has to happen in the scene.

Apprehension and hope can exist together. Being nervous about how a conversation will go doesn’t mean you’ve already accepted that it will end badly.

Let us believe it can work out as much as your character believes it can. The fall is greater when we’ve experienced the hope that came before it.

Don’t let your knowledge of the ending rob your character of the possibility of winning.

This is dramatic progression: allowing each moment to affect what happens next. Your person or object of focus helps ground that progression. Stay connected to the person you’re trying to reach and let their responses affect you.

In Monologue Mastery in Ten Steps, I walk you through both so you can build a performance that unfolds through discovery. Get your copy at MyWalkMastery.com or through the link in bio.

Observe. Believe. Take Action. Every Day.
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