I recently saw a good play with good solid actors doing good solid competent work. And good solid boring acting. Interest is not created by yelling every so often. Find a word or phrase that allows for a non-conventional reading. Find the important word in the sentence and then occasionally do not emphasize it. Dishwasher acting is the opposite of energy and energy does not mean LOUD. Energy is INTERNAL. It is a state of being. It is a personal quality. I sat in on four interviews one recent afternoon. Three perfectly adequate actors (dull, but adequate), four reasonably nice looking people. ONE actor with inner life that was fascinating. It is not conversation. It is not handsome/gorgeous. Inner energy is inner life. One of the saddest cases I ever saw was a young actor with a fascinating face, good vocal quality, alive body, who, when he started to "act," turned into a slug. (The creepy crawly kind.) If you take the effort, you can create inner energy. If you are wedded to the notion that Casting Directors have to take you the way you are, go be an accountant. Acting requires fascination, energy, imagination. LIFE. Stop creeping. It is nice to be diplomatic and sweet but on stage let that go and grab on to LIFE and VITALITY, even if the character is mute and paralyzed.