Jon Jory begins the article with the purpose of improving one’s acting. Jory compares acting to a crime scene, emphasizing the importance of facts. He uses a situation in which he walks in on his friend “Joel” that is lying unconscious on his living room floor with a broken guitar. The facts that the guitar was laying on the ground and broken and an unfinished ham sandwich is present are called “the given circumstances”. Jory recommends an actor to break apart these circumstances with questions so they can relate to the role better. Asking a myriad of questions might help an actor. Asking any questions about the circumstances will help form a context within which you will act the scene. Jory claims that context not only creates, but modifies
