ppening is real. He also cautions that it can be overdone and take away from the play or the characters themselves. He notes that with the proper use of sensory perception the audience will not even notice, but if it is not there at all they will notice. One of his exercises is to pick up an object (one that is exceptionally nice to touch such as a silk scarf), feel it, put the object down, and then pretend to pick it up again. Feel it once more through your memory, and then pick it up again for real and check that your memory and feeling were correct. This can be done with a number of objects of any texture.Robert Lewis' Advice to the Players has very many good points about acting and has some great exercises as well. I still found it very difficult to read, however. It wasn't very much fun to read these exercises and not hear the results from anyone else's point of view but his own....
