•The group rehearses a scene, with little or no reference to the text.
•The results are compared with the director’s initial understanding and interpretation of the text.
•Adjustments are made, incorporating what the actors have created and what the director understands of the text.
•The process is iterated, each time incorporating more of the play’s text, but retaining the spontaneity of the actors’ improvisations, where these match the circumstances and intentions of the scene.
•Eventually the text is embedded into the performance, as if the actors themselves have composed it, matching their (iteratively adjusted) motivations and moment by moment actions.
•The actors are thus bringing their own prior experience and motivations to the performance (in terms of the ‘magic if’), and melding this with their embodiment of the role.