Eric believes that this book is the "Craft bible," since it focuses entirely on the Craft an actor must acquire in order to fulfill dramatic material.
The remaining nine are investigated in subsequent books..
Out of the current thirty-one choice approaches, only twenty-two are explored in this book.
The third element of the craft, the choice approaches, is the practical work the actor must do to create the choices.
The book explores the seven major obligations related to material--time and place, relationship, emotional, character, thematic, historical, and subtextual--and from there goes on to define choices and explain how to use them to fulfill those obligations.
Eric believes that this book is the "Craft bible," since it focuses entirely on the Craft an actor must acquire in order to fulfill dramatic material