Early rehearsals are a very delicate, somewhat dangerous affair. Everybody is new to each other. Everyone is rather daunted by the task ahead – you read the script and find many, many mentions of slaps and hits and rather required spans of crying. You need to kiss him on page 24. She has got to move you so much that you slump onto the floor in a pool of remorse on page 18. He has to spill water on an oh, so specific spot at the top of this scene. She needs to toss a collection of jewelry from a distance at a target limited to just a few inches within the span of 1.5 pages. Read more