Scripted: Day fourteen

Today was the last chance we'd get to have a run through before the Easter break, therefore, we thought it best to try and run as much as we could again without the use of our scripts. The previous lesson we had tried to do the same, however used our scripts more than we'd have liked in order to get a realistic grasp of how long the performance would be. This time, we knew how long the performance would be so we went for it without the scripts, and it went rather well, I think a real encourager was the fact that although some lines were forgotten or said a little differently, we knew the scene well enough to interpret what was said and carry on. In some ways making up the rest of a sentence makes the play a little more authentic and up to date in terms of the dialogue. For example, instead of Bennett calling Nicholas a swot. He called him a twat accidentally, however, this made the piece seem a little more up to date and southern to the originally Northern setting of the play. I still think there is work to be done in terms of learning lines, however it is obvious that we know the performance well enough and how we have set our scenes out that it is beginning to get a little boring, which I believe, in this case, isn't necessarily a bad thing as I think it shows that we have worked hard on pulling this play together and now know it well enough to want to get it performed. I don't think there is much more practice we need to do other than keep on running the play and making sure our lines are learnt, the task ahead is simple, the hard work of creating characters and directing scenes is over, we just need to show this work in our performance.