11/15/2022 0 Comments How to write lighting cues into script![]() ![]() Papadinis approaches the First Folio scripts for performance, see he (.)ĤCue scripts also act as a director by telling the actor how and when he should move. The evolution of the text in a scroll often mirrors the journey a character takes on the stage, thus providing a map to guide his performance. ![]() Transitions are marked by variations in the verse and shifts between verse and prose. Clues can be found in cue lines and capitalized words. Under these conditions, pertinent information regarding character, context and blocking would need to be given to the actors within the limited confines of their cue scripts. Full group rehearsals were minimal, and most likely a complete run-through of the play did not occur before the opening performance. 3ģAccording to Stern’s research, actors prepared on their own, learning their parts from cue scripts with possible help from book-keepers or stage managers, and possibly a synopsis of the plot and characters. The Unrehearsed Cue Script Technique explored in this paper is a modern approach based upon the work of Stern and Tucker and evolves from personal experience using cue scripts, assembled from the First Folio, in performance, production and teaching with The New England Shakespeare Festival and my theatre company, The Unrehearsed Shakespeare Project. Stern and her uncle Patrick Tucker put their research into practice with his company The Original Shakespeare Company as recorded in Tucker’s account of the experience: The Secrets of Acting Shakespeare 2. These cue scripts, or scrolls, consisted of several pages glued or stitched together, and attached at either end to wooden rods. 1 Actors never received the entire text of a play, but rather absorbed their parts through cue scripts containing only the last few words (or last word) of their cues, the lines they were to speak, entrances, exits and other pertinent stage directions that could not be written into the text. ![]()
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