N2C Run Through Night - 30.11.16

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bad.

Really Bad.

Not me specifically, but as we began to do our first run through with the two main guys supposedly knowing their lines, disaster struck. I was prompting the first part and after 'the girl's' first line, 'the boy' turned to me: he had forgotten his first line! This is how it carried on, every single one of his lines, a glance to me and I had to prompt him, somehow with Caitlin ('the girl') keeping her part together while 'the boy' failed. Now all credit to him, he has a mammoth amount to lines to learn with a lot of them repeating, but it meant the scene was excruciatingly slow and painful to watch. It also meant that the blocking was awkward and Caitlin struggled to act off Rob who was constantly getting prompts. (Want to point out, Caitlin knew her lines perfectly). Furthermore, the disaster of the first section knocked everyone else off and it meant that when the drummer came in, although he knew most of his lines, he kept getting brain blocks and so, kept looking to me (for prompts, not because I had the script written all over my face).

When myself and the singer came on, although we knew our lines, it was extremely difficult going through our scene when the boy and the drummer kept stumbling or doing the wrong bit, and it left me feeling extremely uncomfortable on stage.

Then we looked at the time and saw we were meant to perform to Chipp in 5 minutes.

Oh.
My.
God.

Then the cold dread when asking if 'the boy' and 'the drummer' could use their scripts, you could feel the disappointment dripping from his perfectly level voice, saying that "no" we were not allowed to use our scripts because it was a no script run-through. This was going to be painful. Even more horrifying when after five minutes, of Rob not knowing what he was meant to say and Caitlin desperately trying to keep the scene alive, Chipp got up and said he was coming back in 15 minutes.

Thankfully, he didn't have time so we didn't have to suffer through the tormenting embarrassment of the slow-moving play. By the end of the night, we were feeling more confident in our lines and the running of the scenes, I think the embarrassment and horror may have jump-started everyone, and hopefully next week, we will all know our lines, ques and blocking and it will be wonderful. All fingers are crossed.

Must note, the drummer and the boy (Sam and Rob) did try and they do have a huge amount of lines to learn (whilst I just have a few) so all respect to them, learning the lines is a huge job, especially as I mentioned earlier, the script is extremely repetitive making both the lines and the ques quite hard to learn. I just felt so bad for Jermaine who had tried so hard to make it work and trusted us to learn our lines, and it had fallen apart when it had really mattered.