| re: Have you ever seen someone go on with the book in hand? |
| Posted by: portenopete 11:07 pm EDT 05/15/18 |
| In reply to: Have you ever seen someone go on with the book in hand? - bobby2 10:29 pm EDT 05/15/18 |
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It was probably "sides". That is what actors would have rehearsed with back in the 16th century. There'd be a couple of words of the cue line and then the actor's own line. Many productions at the Globe have used "original practices", which sets out to recreate as closely as possible exactly how a show would have been assembled and performed in its original era.
All of theatre is artifice. If an audience is told an actor will be on book, they accept it and move on and listen to the story. They forget about the book minutes in. |
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