So, we've now finished our first day of rehearsals for a professional production! Suzanne and I started with a meet and greet, meeting the director, the rest of the cast, our production team and the theatre management staff. Following this we were taken on a tour of the building, seeing the dressing rooms, both theatre spaces and all of the backstage amenities like the costume store, workshop and offices.
After the tour rehearsals began in earnest, starting with a read-through. This is a really useful way to get to grips with a script you've not seen as instead of reading through alone filling in the other voices, you can take in the other performers' perceptions and have an idea where the piece as a whole will go. The read-through was followed by another read over the script, this time with an eye to changing any syntax the performers weren't comfortable with, as the script was written by the director who is very open to us changing lines into our own words.
The day finished with plotting the first few pages of the script and getting it on its feet, leaving both of us thoroughly exhausted (hence why day one's blog has been written on day two...) but ready for our second day!
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