The Text Is Your Friend

For the director…

If you don’t know what to do in rehearsal (or if it’s not going well), do a line-thru. Bonus points if you do it lying down or a speed thru or both.

For the actor…

If you don’t know what to do in your private rehearsal work, read the script one hundred times out loud and learn the lines exactly as written. Bonus points if you read it two hundred times. (Hey if it’s good enough for Anthony Hopkins, it should be good enough for you too, right?)

The text. The text. The text.

Is your friend.