When it doesn't work

Everyone who has done theatre knows that there are days (sometime many successive ones) where "it" doesn't work. Then as the director you ought to come up with some solution. You cannot not be "inspired" as some would put it; you cannot be unfocused; you cannot be lost or you'll be lost.
At these situations the director must make sure that everyone feel safe, that everyone feels that they are in good hands. And in order to do that, the director has one primary task to solve, that is, to make sure that he has created a secure working space where the only "problems" are those related to the "craft" and not chaos created by dis-organization.