Last lesson, we were told to be off script by next week, so our job over the weekend was to learn our scripts. This entails not only learning our lines, but learning our cue lines, and stage directions and the order of the play. I am usually nightmare with learning lines, but this time round things are easier for me because I have very little lines. The only problem I had was a few slip ups on my cue lines.
That said, todays 'off-script' rehearsal went very badly because no one knew their lines. We began from the start and Mark and Jan knew their duologue mostly, with a few slip ups here and there but nothing major, Chloe cut massive chunks from her monologue. When we got to the part with Me, Lou and John Tate, that whole first page is just them two and they didn't know it very well at all; they were cutting each other off in and interjecting in the wrong places, completely losing the effect of the interjection, and they were dropping lines left right and centre. As a result of this, I was completely thrown off and I couldn't get my cues right, which then meant Lewis and Warren didn't get the cues from me either, so it all just turned into a mess. We were then sent away to learn the scene and work on it. We made sure we were not dropping lines and interjecting and the exact right points and getting our cues right. Also, another problem we faced off script was the fast paced dialogue we had with scripts which really brought out the comedy in the scene - we completely lost it when off script. So when we worked on the scene, we talked about it and made sure we were each fully aware of the cut offs and interjections, and cue lines. Once we sorted this, we ran through it a couple times and what we discussed seemed to have worked and had positive effect.
For next lesson, Mr Webb has told us to have our scripts learnt fully - including cues, cut offs and stage directions.
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