one act play script romeo and juliet rehearsal

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. 3 All quotations, lineation and attributions from the works of Williams Shakespeare in this paper are (.)ĢShakespeare’s actors and their contemporaries approached plays differently from their modern counterparts as evidenced in the research of Tiffany Stern in her books Shakespeare in Parts and Rehearsals from Shakespeare to Sheridan.2 See Patrick Tucker, The Secrets of Acting Shakespeare: The Original Approach, New York, Routledge, (.).

1 See Simon Palfrey and Tiffany Stern, Shakespeare in Parts, Oxford, OUP, 2000 and Tiffany Stern, Reh (.).

One act play script romeo and juliet rehearsal