one of the problems

one of the problems is that action-playing has gone out of

fashion. Everything seems to be focusing on feeling and

impulse and I keep thinking, “Well, if everybody’s doing 

that what is actually happening in the play?” You know? 

All this vaguery! … I can’t get away from the necessity of 

action playing. We need actors who can play actions 

specifically; actors who can play clearly and cleanly. Too 

often we just seem to have a lot of things just ‘happening’ 

between them.