Summary Of The Creature's Aunt

The observation chapter began with the introduction of The Creature’s aunt. The aunt is rather proud of her niece's accomplishments of being a “professional actor” and is reluctant to Boleslavsky’s help with The Creature. Boleslavsky however uses the aunt as an example by asking her to make a cup of tea. Like we do with the box exercise, The Creature and Boleslavsky observe the aunts being while she prepares the tea. The Creature comes to realize this is a very important aspect of acting. Boleslavsky even says, “it helps a student of the theatre to notice everything unusual and out of the ordinary in everyday life.”(96)
Observation can be used even outside of acting or performance. Later in the chapter, Boleslavsky decides observing a beggar