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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.
~ Mark TwainLine notes are like reminders to floss your teeth – nobody likes hearing them but they keep your mouth clean.
~ Craig “I’m no Mark Twain” Mason
I’m entering tech week for my show and we just had our line notes session. A line note session, for the uninitiated, is a fun painful session where you sit down with the stage manager and her prompt script and she points out all the places you’re deviating from the written text. A real life example:
Page 24, your first speech, you’re dropping the word “yet” from the end of the line “Please don’t go.”
I say painful only in the sense that exercising can be painful. It helps you improve yourself and the work, but it’s painful nonetheless. Where a note from the director can be inspiring and push you in a new direction or a stronger choice, a line note is basically a note that says, “You’re doing it wrong.”
Here are some tips to make the line note session as painless as possible.
No show will ever be 100% word perfect. It’s the nature of the beast. Theatre is a living breathing thing and there are thousands of variables going on in every performance. But we should always strive to do our best. Otherwise, what’s the point?