The abstract to the metaphysical

I have been busy preparing for the workshop next week. I have of course realised that even three full days is not enough to explore all that I am interested in. So, I will have to make some decisions.
Of course, I always intended to develop this story with actors and improvisation, in a workshop situation. I think that you only need to have someone, especially an actor, read your work out loud , and you quickly sees the problems and errors. A great way to regain your objectivity.
But it is far more than that. I am really interested in seeing what the actors can do improvising alone - not speaking, just doing, and what meaning can be infused into the story.
And also improvising everyday things. Those parts of the day that I have not written into the script. Brushing your teeth. Doing the laundry. Drinking a glass of water. I think that scenes like this provide a sense of the completeness of the person. Again, what meaning can be infused into the story?
And finally what has been referred to as abstractions (again see Joseph Kickasola and The Films of Krzysztof Kieslowski), which can be character's gestures, an object that the character refers to, the way an character looks at the world, literally, or just the way that some part of the character is shot. These abstractions seemed to suggest another level, above the literal or real world around us. Perhaps the metaphysical. Kickasola, in his book on Kieslowski, discusses the many abstraction of hands, specifically in Red. In this way a sequence opens with a close-up of a pair of hands. We don't know whom they belong to. They live in a place beyond the real. Or the opening of The Double Life of Veronique. Dark as night at the top, then dark blue and purple. Flashing lights. Then that strange curve towards the bottom. Soon we learn that it is a view of the city at dusk, seen upside down. This is Veronique, as a little girl, turned upside down, looking out at the sky.
Each of my main characters have motifs, if you will, which are abstracts. More on that in the next posting.