It's A Scottish Pig: Extra Scene

Sunday, December 9, 2007

Extra Scene

Hi Steve,

One must say that i thought Fridays rehearsal was very productive. I still would like to have an extra scene or a few extra lines as i feel that my role in the play is not prominent as the others. If you feel otherwise, please inform me.

Thanks

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Steve said...: Hi Abi

Yes, I'm happy to give you a little bit extra to do. The first thought that pops into my mind would be to take the Lord in the Banquet scene from Kendra, now she has the 'My former speeches' lines and give THEM to you. It's not much in terms of lines but it is a nice bit.

Do rest assured, though, that you do make an impact in the show, and remember, being on near the end tends to help actors remain in people's minds...

A tip for the future...

If you like this idea, can you contact Kendra, see if that's ok with her - I don't see why it shouldn't be - and take over the lines for Tuesday first thing...; December 9, 2007 at 9:18 AM

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Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue. But if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, by use all gently, for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise. I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant. It out-herods Herod. Pray you avoid it. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. For anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature, to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve, the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. O, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly (not to speak profanely), that neither having th' accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably. Reform it altogether! And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them, for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be considered. That's villainous and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. Go make you ready.

It's A Scottish Pig

Sunday, December 9, 2007

Extra Scene

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