The essence of acting is that stage time is always now. You must be involved with communicating this thought to the other person and observing its effects right now at this moment. |
We call this active experiencing. Which is just another term for staying in the moment. |
When we saw the strategies that actors used for acquiring a script and so forth, they unwittingly used almost every information-processing device that is known to psychologists. Because they were meaning what they were saying as they were saying it, their retention of the lines came naturally. |