Blast from the Cast!

Greetings!

My ramblings today are about an integral part of the whole rehearsal process. Line learning. More specifically a pastime that I have found goes almost hand in hand with it and I believe is scientifically known as “work displacement activity”. For those of you who are not familiar with WDA, cast your mind back to when you were in school sitting your final year exams. In particular, try to remember the cleanliness of your bedroom. I would bet my seasons wage that your room was the cleanest it had ever been and ever will be during that period of study. A time where you would rather do anything than sit down and contemplate the fall of Bismarck or work out if Hamlet is actually mad.

    This is the situation that I find myself in at the moment. I have in front of me the Trelawney of the Wells script. I have a good sized part, some beautifully written dialogue and nothing really that should be that hard to solidify. All the same, this morning I have already cleaned out the fridge, taken out the bins, phoned long lost friends, re arranged my DVDs, loaded, put on and emptied the dishwasher and made mayonnaise. Made mayonnaise for crying out loud! All of this to prevent myself from doing something I really enjoy! Even as I write this blog, I am trying to kid myself that because this has something to do with the theatre it could be considered work and therefore its ok that it takes the place of the bitty speech in Act 1 that I simply cannot learn.

    Now that I’ve finished this instalment, surely there is nothing else left for me to do apart from crack on with the script and cram it into my brain before the stagger through tomorrow? Just looked outside, what a superb day! I really must go for a run.

S.B x

P.s The Mayonnaise wasn’t even nice.