I spent some time recently going through the play making notes on each of the characters. Nothing too in-depth yet, but enough for people to know how to pitch a performance at audition and to give us something to build on in rehearsals.
It's nearly Christmas now and though we don't start rehearsals until early March, the time seems to be slipping past very quickly now. Auditions will be in late February and we will have a read-through in January so that the whole group can hear the play and decide whether they want to take part, or not.
I've also put together my rehearsal script. I take a photocopy of my script, blown up from A5 to A4, with the text on the left-hand page. The blank right-hand pages can be divided into columns for recording ideas about characters' actions, motivations, moves and any other ideas or notes which come to mind. This works alongside the 'official' prompt copy which our SM will keep and acts as a useful aide-memoire for discussions on characterisation.
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