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The emerging field of rehearsal studies reveals concrete opportunities to explore the transformative power of performance in theatre-making processes. The final product, theatrical performance itself, does not allow to observe the production of meaning which remains prerogative of the rehearsal. Maintaining the importance of rehearsal studies, I would like to show and to interpret the way of the transformation of one scene during the rehearsal process to Anton Chekhov’s “Ward No. 6” at the Deutsches Theater Berlin. The repetition of the same mise en scène during the whole rehearsal is a kind of model how performative acts transform the evolving performance and lead it to its final version. Zooming on performative acts produced by the actors, I will have a chance to illustrate in some brief video episodes the quintessence of the entire theatre-making process. At the same time, I will highlight the possibilities which reveal rehearsal studies in comparison to the studies based on a ready performance.