ACTOR'S SCENE STUDY: Playing Scenes From a Larger Work + Listening to your Instructor (?)

In a scene study class when your acting scene is 5 pages in the middle of a much larger script, how do you play the scene? Should you treat your instructor's direction as you would a director's instructions on set? Am inspired episode based on my own recent experience

The Starting Actor is a channel for new and aspiring actors, created by a new actor who is training, auditioning, working on set, and learning the industry himself from zero experience. Vinnie shares his experiences with you as he encounters the challenges, obstacles, and thrills of being an up and coming actor. By sharing those experiences Vinnie wants to help other aspiring actors by answering many of the common questions that all new actors encounter as they start their own exciting career in acting.