Emotion Prep
The pre-scene or pre-show practice of arriving with a committed emotional state, not neutral, but charged, so the first line of the scene has weight.
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- Common drill: backstage, pick an emotion, physicalize it (posture, breath, tempo), walk out with it already in the body.
- Counter to the 'play it safe / arrive neutral' intermediate instinct, neutral openings usually produce neutral scenes.
- Napier's version: 'change your body before you come on stage', explicit pre-entrance choice.
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