Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know About How Artists Work

morning after her violent bout of fighting and sex with Stanley.

Her new energy forced Blanche into busy reaction. Blanche’s

increasingly desperate efforts to shock her sister out of this

state brought the scene to higher levels of intensity.

Other actors made similar advances that afternoon. Of

course, there were glitches here and there: Actors now and

then forgot a line or stumbled on an unfamiliar move. But even

the glitches had new life. When one actor forgot a prop, anoth-

er found it on a chair and tossed it to him; he caught it smooth-

ly and the scene went along without a pause.

Other actors, sitting at the edges of the room when they

weren’t onstage, ...