New poll - Hung up on the Lines
Fri, 12 Sept 2003, 11:02 pmcrgwllms10 posts in thread
New poll - Hung up on the Lines
Fri, 12 Sept 2003, 11:02 pmPoll topic - how early in rehearsals do you get your lines down?
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The Poll-tergeist
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Re: Time Lines
Tue, 16 Sept 2003, 11:40 amDanny Sag wrote:
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> What about the period between 'third week' and 'production
> week'?
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> I mean, I usually have my lines down about 4 weeks before
> opening, but that's usually that's about week 6 of
> rehearsals...
>
Good point Danny. It occurred to me afterwards that perhaps also 'a week' was not actually a useful unit of measure to describe many amateur rehearsals, but I couldn't really think of a good alternative...maybe I should add extra weeks to the poll?
In my experience of professional theatre, a four week (full time) rehearsal, including the production week, is standard (almost becoming a luxury!) Unfortunately, often three or less are allocated.
The poll is flawed then, in that it doesn't account for varying lengths of rehearsal. If someone says "week three" they might intend to mean 'reasonably early' in a long rehearsal ...whereas when I leave it to week three I'm usually being hassled by the director for being the last one off the book.
It also doesn't really account either for part-time or sporadic rehearsals. There's possibly a different approach in these, with time in between rehearsal days to learn lines.
For paid rehearsals, learning lines quickly is a contractual obligation, but I suppose in both pro and am rehearsals there are some who learn them early and others who leave it 'til the death-knock.
So the poll is just useful as a rough indication of where people see themselves on that scale. A percentage scale would perhaps have been more accurate...but probably harder to understand.
Cheers,
Craig
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> What about the period between 'third week' and 'production
> week'?
>
> I mean, I usually have my lines down about 4 weeks before
> opening, but that's usually that's about week 6 of
> rehearsals...
>
Good point Danny. It occurred to me afterwards that perhaps also 'a week' was not actually a useful unit of measure to describe many amateur rehearsals, but I couldn't really think of a good alternative...maybe I should add extra weeks to the poll?
In my experience of professional theatre, a four week (full time) rehearsal, including the production week, is standard (almost becoming a luxury!) Unfortunately, often three or less are allocated.
The poll is flawed then, in that it doesn't account for varying lengths of rehearsal. If someone says "week three" they might intend to mean 'reasonably early' in a long rehearsal ...whereas when I leave it to week three I'm usually being hassled by the director for being the last one off the book.
It also doesn't really account either for part-time or sporadic rehearsals. There's possibly a different approach in these, with time in between rehearsal days to learn lines.
For paid rehearsals, learning lines quickly is a contractual obligation, but I suppose in both pro and am rehearsals there are some who learn them early and others who leave it 'til the death-knock.
So the poll is just useful as a rough indication of where people see themselves on that scale. A percentage scale would perhaps have been more accurate...but probably harder to understand.
Cheers,
Craig
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