Some actors do not fully realize the limitations
placed on them by nature. They undertake problems
beyond their powers to solve. The comedian wants to
play tragedy, the old man to be a jeune premier, the
simple type longs for heroic parts and the soubrette
for the dramatic. This can only result in forcing, im-
potence, and stereotyped, mechanical action. These
are shackles and your only means of getting out of
them is to study your art and yourself in relation to it.

--An Aktor Prepares

SeeCHARACTERISATION AND TRANSFORMATION, EXTERNAL
TECHNIQUE, NATURE, TYPES.

SeeACTION, EXTERNAL TECHNIQUE.

The approach we have chosen--the art of living a
part--[asserts] that the main factor in any form of
creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the
actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious
creation. . . . What we hold in highest regard are im-
pressions made on our emotions, which leave a lifelong

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