…it is imperative to sharpen one’s whole sensory equipment, shake loose and free one’s self of all preconceptions, interpretations, and assumptions (if one is to solve the problem) so as to be able to make direct and fresh contact with the created environment and the objects and the people within it. When this is learned inside the theater world, it simultaneously produces recognition, direct and fresh contact with the outside world as well. This then broadens the student-actors’ ability to involve themselves within their phenomenal world and more personally to experience it. Thus experiencing is the only actual homework and, once begun, like ripples on water is endless and penetrating in its variations.

– Viola Spolin

Thanks to Kate Williams for this.