1) Know who you are and where you came from.

A) Know how you “read” to others, know your limitations and your
strengths.

B) Know your ethnic heritage-study your family tree and if possible, visit
the lands or foreign cultures which gave life to your family.

2) Travel- see as much of the world as possible and interact with the residents.

3) Study theatre history and period style.

3A) Study art and world history- 5,000 years of vicarious recorded
knowledge of how people behaved and how relationships were
forged or broken.

4) Find the music, the abstracts, the animal, the colors and vulnerabilities of your character. Don’t be afraid to let it change you- until you become “the mask”, ie. the character- or else our work will never be as full or as believable as it could be.

5) Do your research, the time, the circumstances, the physicality of your immediate universe involving your character.

6) Concentration- control of energy and focus.

7) Listening- being in the moment so you can be free of anticipation, which allows spontaneity to occur
-Vincent Lamberti