VISTA

... He said that where you are is what you are, and how you are, and what you can be. You are in a place that will feed you, that will give you strength, that will give you the ability to do whatever you want.

— Stella Adler talks about Stanislavsky

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.

Once an object leaves the frame, once you can no longer touch, smell or taste it, I call it your VISTA, something you are aware of in the world around you, something you can see or hear. It is something that calls you, magnetizes you, beckons your attention.

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.

Let’s warm up the idea with this exercise.

ROOM SERVICE

To practice allowing the room to do its own work in the scene, try this simpl…