THE INVISIBLE QUESTION

Let the world around you do the work. Let the room do the work. Let the reader do the work. Reverse the flow and be responsive to your surroundings.

The light switch, your dog, your car, the local prison, another city, the moon. Your vista is anything outside the frame that helps make your performance more natural by helping you to achieve unselfconsciousness.

— VISTA, Miranda’s Notes for Actors

Just as the external drive of your environment can help you achieve unselfconsciousness, the external drive of your scene-partner or audition reader can ignite a life-force that the camera loves to see and capture.

Give your scene partner the power to begin the scene!

The Invisible Question is an easy way to create a sense that your scene or monologue is a biopsy that has been sliced out of a larger world…

A biopsy is a sample of tissue taken from the body in order to examine it more closely — to understand the whole from the part. 

And really, that is just what an audition scene is. It’s a sample…