dinnertime!

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!