It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.
Quotes about interlanguage (2 Quotes)
. . . the fact that English has shed most of the old grammatical forms which time has rendered useless and scarcely intelligible, has made English a model, pointing the way which must be followed in building the Interlanguage. . .