The most peculiar things that I can remember happening in one of our shows was when one of our actors totally dried. She forgot her lines completely. It was in our production of Liz Lochhead’s “Perfect Days” which is set in a posh flat in Glasgow.
I saw that she had lost it. She was on-stage with one other actor who was fairly inexperienced, and I could see the panic flitting over his eyes. When this sort of thing happens most actors will go into a kind of self-preservation mode where they ramble away about anything until they stumble onto what they were supposed to be saying. It is a fairly tried and tested technique and it usually works without the audience noticing that anything is awry.
What most actors do not normally do, is to say “I’m away to make a cup of tea” and then walk through the bedroom door leaving their inexperienced co-star alone on the stage.
A hairy moment.
Nightcap
15 years ago
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