Rule #1 of dramatic literature is that nothing on the stage is worth watching if it is not driven by conflict. Although conflict is the source of grief in our life, conflict is the bread and butter of the theatre. It is interesting in coaching scenes – – where well intentioned actors are trying to figure out why in the world things are not working – – they so quickly reach to an exotic varierty of soluitions. They consider pulling out a thesareus and grabbing some “fancier verbs” (although I really never viewed acting as a game of synonymous . . .) Read more