10.10.10...... Do something my book recommends

1. What is the character literally doing?
2. What is the essential action of what the character is doing in this scene?
3. What is that action like to me? It's as if...


According to A Practical Handbook for the Actor, this is the key to analyzing a scene. If always employed correctly, it will lead to an excellent performance to the playwright's and the actor's liking.
As the authors recommend, I took one of the scenes I am currently working on and thoroughly analyzed it, following the guidelines they mentioned. It is an ensemble scene entitled "In Facebook Wii Trust" from the play of the same name. 

In this scene, I play the mother of 2 boys and a girl, sometime in the future, where technology has taken over, and books and other simple things have become obsolete.
I asked, what is my character literally doing? and found that "Mom" is trying to keep the family intact through texting and facebook.
As an answer to the second question, I decided that, she is literally just trying to live life as normally as possible as her eldest son is being taken to "The Facility".
Finally, responding to the final question, it's as if I've been placed in a school in a different country where I do not speak the language, and I am trying to get by, as normally as possible, without attracting too much attention to myself, while still attempting to get back home.
From throughly analyzing this scene, I feel much more in tune with the character.