
hard, and systematically to achieve it. They would continue
to work long, hard, and systematically to maintain it while
the play-to-be gradually took shape among them, and later
during the run as they reliably made the play with a new
audience each night.
We call Ensemble a quality of the work because every
moment in an artful making
process exhibits it. It cannot
be extracted for analysis,
because a process without it
will no longer be artful making.
This is true of each of the qualities we’ve mentioned: Release,
Collaboration, Ensemble, and Play. None of them can be
removed without changing a process from artful making to
something else. In addition, the ...