Plot is charted, characters sketched, when the plans for writing are thrown off track.
Working through three hundred books as he did, had to keep a series of charts showing character's past doing so wouldn't repeat himself.
I once joked the play could be called Educating Rita, and Lydia Leonard brilliantly charts the character's dynamism and possibility of change.
"As I thumb through the 25 charts [of characters' evolving degrees of belief], I see Shakespeare going down and down and Oxford going up and up," he said.
With both roles, I felt, you don't really get going in charting your character until you are in front of the audience in soliloquy — the act and energy of sharing the character's thoughts with actual people.
Hattie Morahan's Annie, in the first moment she is left alone with Henry, captures perfectly the reckless excitement of love; and she goes on to chart the character's journey, via a momentary fling, to total commitment.
Guidance ranges from drawing a detailed profile of each one, describing physical appearance and personality traits, to making a timeline charting the character's history in the context of the novel.
The franchise has charted the characters' – and the actors' – passage from prepubescence to adulthood.
During the workshop Mr. Cherkaoui asked the two stars to perform a 20-minute improvisation charting their characters' relationship.
