I'm starting to chip away at learning my words for The Crucible. I'm doing the same thing that I did for Book of Days, working from a spiral-bound book with pages pasted into it. I used Andy's Word-format version of the script, in which he puts each speech (cue) into its own row in a table, with the original stage directions stripped out. So by that formatting, I've learned 10 of 38 pages, which includes a couple of the longer monologues. "Learned," for these purposes, means I can put my book down to do the scene and I won't call for a line too much, but I will be early and late with my cues all over the place. It's a failing of mine that I really don't learn cues by myself very well: I learn them by running the scene with other people.

posted: 6:02:59 PM  

Languagehat points out that the popular name for The Beatles, i.e. "the white album," is somewhat of a redundancy.

posted: 2:29:40 PM