What is Emotion With Detail?

Emotion with Detail is a powerful tool in my drama technique used to create deep visceral connections to a character. It is not enough to simply understand a character’s motivations or emotions from an intellectual standpoint. To achieve rich emotion reliably, repeatedly and safely, you also have to build the character’s history emotionally. Emotion With Detail mirrors the way we as real people experience emotion physiologically – so that the character’s emotional history lives within us and is safely compartmentalized and reliably accessible. Though it is just a piece of The Warner Loughlin Technique for Drama, some students refer to the Technique itself as Emotion With Detail.