David Barrouk is a screenwriter, director and producer, as well as founder and director of The Method Acting Center in Paris. He is also an acting coach and has written a number of films, including documentaries, short and feature films.

Anna Popkin was born in New York and studied at the Method Acting Center in Paris. She has acted in a number of short films and plays and currently works as an acting coach at the Method Acting Center, plus as an assistant director at the National Film School in France. She has experience as an dialect coach and is a close collaborator of David Barrouk.

0. ADVICE TO READERS

I. INTRODUCTION
1. The Introduction to the introduction
2. The why and the how
3. Warnings. Wait, what? ...Yeah, that's right, warnings!
4. Rumors
5. Wait, one question

II. BRIEF ACCOUNTING OF THE HISTORY OF THE METHOD
1. The origins of the Method
2. The future of the Method

III. PLAY THE GAME
1. I have a question to ask you
2. The four barriers to break

IV. THE W.W.W. QUESTIONS
1. The questions Where, When and Why
2. Answering the questions
3. The detailed answers to the W.W.W. questions
4. Creating a fictional W.W.W. situation
5. The W.W.W. protocol
6. Your turn!
7. The embodiment of the W.W.W. questions

V. EXPLORATION
1. To freak out or not to freak out?
2. Energization
3. Concentration
4. Listening
5. The moment to moment to moment
6. Sources
7. Imagination
8. Experience
9. Reflex sources
10. The first contact
11. The shower

VI. Aaaaaaaaaand ACTION(S)
1. Physical actions
2. Psychophysical actions

VII. HOW TO REHEARSE CREATE A SCENE
1. First reading, first impressions
2. Giving life to what's in white on the page
3. Breaking down a scene
4. Active analysis & psychophysical structure
5 In continuation. Choices & execution
6. Loosen up the structure
7. Dialogue
8. Monologues
9. Breathing life into the statue
10. A word on tragedy
11. A word on contemporary roles

VIII. PLAYING WITH YOUR INSTINCT
1. 50% machine, 50% animal

IX. THE "GOOD" & THE "BAD" EGO

X. TWO ESSENTIAL FLAWS

XI. TO CONCLUDE

Index