If you're going to act onstage for 11:11 Theatre, you first have to answer four questions that are trickier than they sound:

1. What's your character's Laban?
2. What's your Laban?
3. What's your character's MEP?
4. What's your MEP?

Lots of directors ask actors or dancers for their characters' Labans--that is, whether their characters are Fast or Slow, Light or Heavy, and Direct or Indirect--but not every director makes their directees evaluate their personal Laban.  As an actor with 11:11, I can tell you it makes a huge (positive) difference to do this.  Getting to know a character only works so long as you know yourself.  While that may be common knowledge, it doesn't matter until you can somehow put it into practice.  These four questions do that beautifully.  At the same time that they are asked for their Laban, all 11:11 actors are also asked to provide their MEP--whether they think they are primarily Mental, Emotional, or Physical--and their character's MEP, together.  Nobody wants to admit that they are any of these things last--we think of ourselves as well-rounded--but being forced to prioritize your personal qualities like that ends up telling you a lot about yourself.  Perhaps too much, sometimes.

Only by forcing actors to answer what are often difficult questions about themselves are they able to gain enough altitude to draw a map of their characters with themselves as a starting point.  If you're acting with 11:11, doing this is a necessary part of our process, and the results show.