- Emotional Truth: Actors must fully understand and connect with their characters' motivations and emotional states to convincingly portray them.
- Physical Preparation: Actors should meticulously study the character's physicality, including gestures, movements, and facial expressions, to embody the role authentically.
- Character Analysis: Actors should comprehensively analyze their characters' backgrounds, personalities, and relationships to build a holistic understanding of their motivations and behaviors.
- Improvisation: Actors engage in improvisation to explore different aspects of the character and develop a natural, unscripted performance.
- Given Circumstances: Actors must consider all aspects of the character's environment, including time, place, and social circumstances, to fully realize their performance.
- The Magic If: Actors ask themselves "What if I was in this situation? How would I react and behave?" to deepen their emotional connection to the role.
- Active Memory: Actors draw upon their own life experiences and emotions to generate genuine reactions during performances.
- The Super-Objective: Actors identify the main underlying drive or desire that motivates their characters throughout the play.
- Ensemble Acting: Actors work collaboratively to create a cohesive and unified ensemble performance where every character exists within the larger context of the play's world.
- Through-Line of Action: Actors define the character's specific objectives in each scene and track how those goals evolve throughout the play.