The RSC rehearsal process turns out to be very efficient and effective and surprisingly easy to do for a reasonably well organised amateur group.
You get a understanding of your character, a common understanding of the text and a good portion of the physical movement and other physical blocking all in one iterative process.
I've never used it with a modern playwright with a settled script but I've been involved in new works where the iterative process has flagged up the need for some re-writes.
There's an interesting series (radio or television, I can't recall) where Akala the British hip hop performer looks at Homer's epics and how they would work as semi-improvised spoken performance pieces. It's not quite on all fours with understanding Shakespeare by reading aloud but it has a similar conclusion, that the easiest way to get the guts of the literature is to read it aloud.
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andrewducker) wrote2023-03-05 12:00 pm
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That’s fascinating thank you!
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You get a understanding of your character, a common understanding of the text and a good portion of the physical movement and other physical blocking all in one iterative process.
I've never used it with a modern playwright with a settled script but I've been involved in new works where the iterative process has flagged up the need for some re-writes.
There's an interesting series (radio or television, I can't recall) where Akala the British hip hop performer looks at Homer's epics and how they would work as semi-improvised spoken performance pieces. It's not quite on all fours with understanding Shakespeare by reading aloud but it has a similar conclusion, that the easiest way to get the guts of the literature is to read it aloud.