C H A P T E R 2 5
REHEARSALS AND PLANNING COVERAGE
REHEARSING WITHOUT THE BOOK
When work begins, actors’ anxiety about remembering lines will temporarily usurp the physical action. Should an actor keep saying he’s unsure of the lines and must have the book just one more time, take the book away and ask him to improvise. It’s more important in any case to play the meaning and spirit of the scene—lines can always be tightened later.
TURNING THOUGHT AND WILL INTO ACTION
Actors and directors together develop the pressures in the characters that produce physical and verbal action (that is, dialogue). Meaningful dialogue always acts on someone to get something; in return, it energizes action in the person addressed. Is this consistently happening? ...
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