Just as last week was ending a took a pair of actors out into the hall to have a first red through of their scene from The Elephant Man. The actors came to the moment very unprepared as the script had just been handed to them a day or so before. For the first rehearsal, I asked them to do all they could to STOP as they were reading – – to take the moment in and to try to make sense of what was being sent and how it was being received by their acting partner. BUT what I get is actors who are reading along and PAUSING – not stopping. And a pause ain’t a stop! They think that when I say pause it is as good as saying stop. These are going to be the same citizens who will be pulled over by the police regarding a recent stop sign in their life only to know that even legally there is a wee difference between stop and pause. Read more