PLAYING THE STYLE
If, as the review we quoted at the beginning of this chapter suggest, “Characters are unable to explain their actions, thoughts or feelings. “how, for example, would an actor go about playing the part of Davies in The Caretaker? Even if the surface information contained in the text cannot be taken at face value, it is still the actor’s only guide, and the clues must be discovered by careful reading. In fact, as the content information of the language is less reliable, the actor must have a stronger sense of the rhythms and structure of the language as a whole in which the tactics and strategies of the character are contained.