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Actors and Line Readings

line readings Jul 12, 2021

Well.

Don't we all love to be given these...

Not.

Most of us are aware, globally, of the 'no no' that is giving an actor a line reading, either director to actor, or actor to actor, or teacher to actor....Ā 

Sometimes we do need it. Ask for it. Ā Just to speed things along.

Sometimes as a standby or cover, we choose to slip into the rhythm of the actor in a role to keep the pacing familiar.

But sometimes we don't.

And when we are 'given' a reading, whether because we request it, or it is simply hurled at us in rehearsal, we have a thought about it.Ā 

And that thought generates a feeling.

'I hate saying it that way.'

'That doesn't work for me.'

'That is inauthentic.'

'This director is asking for a result, not my instincts.'

'Thank God I know what they want!'

'I can do that.'

'The director is in a rush and I wasn't getting there fast enough.'

There are as many 'sentences in our heads' as there are actors who receive the line reading.

You can't be in the business for long wi...

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