Alright – so line learning is proving very difficult. I’m finding it hard to have all my lines down pat. The issue is that line – knowledge is crucial to a good, smooth performance. It affects our focus, as if we know our lines well focus can be on character realization. It affects the pace of the performance as the better we know them, the quicker we’ll say them thus the play won’t get boring. We know that pace is crucial to this play and its humor; many of the little conversations have to be said very quickly, so as not to give other actor’s the chance to respond, and to display certain relationships. Also, if this play doesn’t maintain a quick pace, certain sections are very boring and once we lose audience attention – it’s hard to get it back. With the lack of movement in our play the lines and their pace are crucial in order to maintain audience-interest. There is also the obvious that if people don’t get fed the right cues, parts will get skipped, or it’ll be chucked out of order which is never good, and has proven to be disastrous (e.g – Macbeth, “GET OUT, GET OUT”) also, when we do forget a line, or miss a cue – it naturally flusters us and therefore we panic which can cause loss of character. For all these reasons and many more, it is vital that we read our lines EVERY NIGHT, make sure we know each one by the day – especially go over scenes and lines which we know we don’t do so well. When the line-issue is solved, this play will be spectacular, so let’s pull together, support one another and learn learn learn some friggin lines!
MWA – love u ready steady act!

So, today, we were happily rehearsing getting ready for our approaching performances when bad news struck like lightening on your noggin. Scotty revealed to us, that the UIA is using the Pac on the 21st of May for a concert at a time which will coincide with our performance; this concert will involve bands, music and numerous noisy interruptions which means audience members will not be able to hear actors’ voices (which is not ideal as the dialogue is crucial to the understanding of the plot). SO, we could either, stand our ground, refuse to budge and work on voice projection, conform to the desires of bureaucracy, or kindly request that as UIA booked the Pac after us they move their show to a later time. Our original decision was to stand our ground and despite being lacking in numbers against the large organization against us – insist on keeping our original arrangement. This, however hasn’t seemed to work and it seems as though the lil’ guy has lost again, and as any young, thriving theatre company would do, we may have to accept moving our show, as I like to say we’ll have to build a bridge and get over it.
The problems with the show being at 5 are firstly, we will have less time to get ready and will have to hurry to be ready to perform by 5 and that this time will prove difficult for audience members who work or have uni classes late to attend and therefore may result in losses in numbers. However, there is a positive side – being at 5 o’clock this will be a more appealing time to our Scopus friends as they will easily be able to stay after school and then come see us perform. Also, we’ll be able to get home earlier! (OR PARTY LONGER AND HARDER) We’ll find out tomorrow the final decision – but either way, let’s look on the bright side and focus on putting on a GREAT show! I know we have it in us, we just have to pull out all our efforts for the final stretch!

The count down has truly begun!
Promotions are going well, pat on the back to Kimmi for all that hard-work! After all, a good performance relies on having a decent audience present to view it! But we must make sure we don’t let Kimmi’s huge effort stray us from putting in our own hard-yards to promote this show 
Acting:
So, I started my process of learning lines like a week or two ago, and it was going along well and everything I have learnt, I feel fairly confident that I’ve learnt very well – I just need to work on recognizing my cues. However, I’ve started to find line-learning frustrating and feel like I’ve come to a bit of a stand-still in this process. I’m up to Monika’s drunk scene, in which she has quite a few large paragraphs and I’m finding it a bit hard to get my head around having all these paragraphs with not much brake between each – but I’m sure ill get there. I found that in rehearsal, while it is easier to act without a script in hand, we at times lose our characters very easily because a lot of focus is on remembering lines correctly, rather than on maintaining character. This has motivated me to put in more effort into perfecting my lines as soon as possible, so that by performance time it will no longer be a worry and I can put all my efforts toward being Monika on stage. I recommend this to all actors. I also found that I must remember that other actors depend on me knowing my lines and therefore it is also for them that I must perfect line-knowledge ASAP, so I started rehearsing in the shower :p. I’m still having trouble with my crying scene and making it believable, and feel I need some work and stricter direction in this scene…HELP! While I love acting drunk, it is demanding to maintain the seriousness of Monika’s words and realizations in her confrontation with Dympie, at the same time not losing too much of her intoxication and maintaining her original level of drunkenness. I hope the seriousness and depth of this scene is not lost in the comical aspect and vise versa. It has come to the crux of development process and I have now begun dreaming about theatre! READY STEADY ACT has consumed me! Hehe (o.k – I exaggerated a little at the end there)
Costumes:
I’m thrilled to hear (from Elise) that the costumes have helped people get into character. I find this to be true for myself and I hope everyone else too. It was really good to see all costumes on the actors and on stage. It really does help bring the characters to life and I’m so relieved and glad that I finally finalized the costumes and got it right! There are a few finishing touches, mainly from you guys – like yanivs pants, elise’s shoes, waiter outfits and I need to attach Paula’s hood. Also, I understand that some of the costumes aren’t in the cleanest condition as I purchased from oppe shops, but it is too difficult for me to wash everything – id prefer to go dirty, hehe, so if this is bothering anyone, or if after rehearsing in them (and maybe making them smelly yourselves) you’d like them washed, I am leaving that as your responsibility. Each person can wash their own costumes…just let me know if you are taking stuff so I don’t panic that things are missing. And, I know there are some “spilling” scenes in the play, in these scenes we are going to make the drinks water – Mel is going to try to get non-clear glasses – this will just make things easier as all we’ll need to do is dry the costumes, no need to wash them every night! Hope everyone is happy with their outfits and if anything needs to be added, let me know! Thanks dudes….
Pretty soon we will be backstage, truly able to say “READY…STEADY…ACT!” and then the play will take off with Gordon’s climactic line “waiter”! can’t wait!