The theatre has developed techniques for establishing partnership and handling interaction in collaborative work on the stage. Interplay in a practical theatrical context builds on the actors ability to make themselves receptive to their fellow actors onstage. The actor needs to understand how they are affected by the onstage action, as well as how they are affecting the onstage action, when acting within the framework of the scripted role and/or the dramatic situation. (Brattström 2015). The PhD study, performed as a collaborative project between the Academy of Music and Drama and University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-centred Care, explores how particular techniques of acting and directing can contribute to person-centred health and care practice focusing the process of partnership-creation between patients and healthcare professionals in clinical healthcare encounters. The PhD study develops a method of analysis highlighting co-creative and analytical aspect of the acting and directing professions. Central to the study are the concepts of the magic ‘If’ and ‘Given Circumstances’ part of the system of acting techniques developed by actor and theatre director Konstantin Stanislavsky [1863–1938]. In the study transcribed audiorecordings from clinical healthcare encounters are explored through different steps of analysis including: (1) Interpretation of the transcripts as if they were scenes in a play, based on a director’s way of analysing a playscript in the context of theatrical production. (2) Exploring the process of partnership-creation through interactive workshops with focusgroups. (3) “Rehearsal laboratories”. The transcribed dialogues, transformed into the format of playscripts, are explored both from the point of wiev of the patient and professional role together with actors in a co-creative and analytical process similar to a theatrical rehearsal. The study reveals insights into the complex interplay between role- and personal identities in the process of partnership-creation and in the context of clinical heathcare encounters.