Chapter 5
Principles of Performance
In this chapter, we take a look at some of the underlying principles governing a performance and an audience’s reactions to a performer that we need to understand to create a character that will engage an audience and be believable. We will be looking at the idea of Empathy and its importance in helping to create an identification with a character and how this might be achieved and at what motivates a character and how that character’s needs and desires work their way through into their behavior. Understanding the forces that motivate a character helps, create the “hinterland” that makes a more rounded character with the power to make the viewer laugh or cry.
We also examine the question of what the director ...
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