books down please...

Rehearsals are continuing to be fun, or even hilarious at times, and sad - with those few sad moments in the play. This play is all about the performance, it's clever and beautifully written but without a Performance it will fall flat. So far so good, we're having some really lovely moments from everyone, and I'm delighted to say that everyone is doing very well with the line learning. This Monday we'll have done the whole play off book which is terrific. Then we can start to polish and tweak which is my favourite bit.

Line learning is different for everyone but generally it's about repetition and training your memory to regurgitate the words as written rather than what you know you say at a certain point. Therein lies the path to misunderstanding and confusion, not only for oneself but also for the other actors who might have to change what they say to fit with what you said. Of course that will happen in performance at times, and generally it won't matter but sometimes just a phrase says so much about a persons character that to replace it with a different phrase could give an impression which is not as the playwright intended, changing the nature of the relationship of the characters in the play.

For now though we're mainly getting the gist of the play - the flow - and I'll get pedantic about the words later. Cast - You've been warned!

And we should have the poster soon and start to sell tickets in earnest. March 29th, 30th and 31st...