Last rehearsal

 

Last rehearsal.  It was the first time they ran through the play without being fed their lines when they forgot.  So, they floundered up there with long awkward pauses.     There was a large section at the beginning and another at the end that Tatiana forgot most of her lines.   But, that was very helpful for her because she knew precisely what she needed to work on.  She wasn't the only one that forgot a lot of lines.   The Aviator was much worse, and the lamplighters lines were almost totally forgotten. I think their examples had made it harder for Tatiana.   She was always doing better than some of the older experienced kids, so she thought she was doing just fine with her lines.  

In the Wednesday rehearsal, Emma had been praised for feeding Tatiana her lines when they were on stage together.  On the last rehearsal on Thursday Tatiana was feeding lines to the other actors.   But she was chastised for that.   It did sound really bad since it sounded like Tatiana was saying one of her lines and no one could hear it.  But Grayce, the director, told her to change the other person's lines so that it would make sense coming from her and then say them herself.   One of the lines she'd fed were, "Can you tell me about your journey?"   If they forgot, she would say, "Would you like me to tell you about my journey?"  That was hugely helpful.