You have to be challenged by the writing. You have to look at the context of the play, and why it was written.
The great thing about this scene is that they are both right and they are both wrong – with great theatre it’s never black and white.
Your goal in portraying any character is to make it hard for the audience to make a moral judgement.
You need to go through the play and ask ‘What am I doing?’ ‘What am I trying to get her to feel?’
Finding active intentions – choose an active verb you think is right for the specific moment in the scene then find all the synonyms in the thesaurus for that verb and try out the dialogue as you play the different possibilities.
Script analysis - a good actor is a good detective – they ferret.
What an actor brings to a play is telling a story with your body that Shaw or the writer doesn’t give you.
So if you don’t understand the play, HOW CAN YOU MAKE CHOICES? Meaning of objects.
Persons, places, objects, you can’t overlook anything. Investigate place. Object. Relationship with place, objects.