Page 91: "Brecht comes fresh to rehearsals-and usually ahead of his fellow workers. from the very moment he enters the theater he is in his element,a fish in water. He starts with a reading rehearsal, asking the actors to read out their roles, with neither expression nor accentuation but concentrating instead on the implication of the words. After that comes the positioning. Brecht sits there with a cap and a cigar in his mouth, knowing nothing. (...) Brecht is wiser. With his method he gets more out of his actors as well as out of himself. When an actor asks, "Should I stand up here?" everybody is always astounded by Brecht's typical response: "I don't know". He does not make up his mind in advance but tries out several possible solutions. The actor can make suggestions of his own. What Brecht likes most of all is to have suggestions demonstrated, not discussed. As soon as someone starts explaining his intentions at great length, Brecht breaks in and says, "Show us". For Brecht an actor's technique is not a matter fro discussion."
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