Estimate what it would take for each person to purchase the item, including how he or she might have to alter the budget, save money, or make sacrifices.
Coleman added that one of the problems with assessments has been an underestimation of the length of time it will take for each one to take place.
What's especially winning about Krouse's method is that while she doesn't require her characters to "grow," she does have a grasp of what it would take for each of them to get past her current predicament.
The Conservative green paper on housing suggests incentivising new house-building by matching local authorities' council tax take for each new house built for six years – with special incentives for affordable housing.
What is needed is a direct and open assessment of the prospects of each distressed economy and what it will take for each of those economies to regain its footing, either within or outside the euro zone.
The new fluidity over location – or the shape that it should take for each show – offers artistic liberation, although theatre needs to be wary of ending up like the Church of England, with a lot of beautiful buildings standing empty while people express themselves elsewhere in different ways.
