Noises Off

I am once again acting in Fairmont's Civic Summer Theatre summer play. (Was part of that redundant?) The play is called Noises Off, and we had our first rehearsal, our read-through, tonight. I can tell a couple of things from the read-through. One is that this is going to be a long play; we did the read-through in just under two hours, and there's a lot of action in this play that wouldn't show up in a read-through, coupled with the fact that read-throughs usually go faster than the final show. Secondly, it's a really funny show. There was much uproarious laughter among the cast members as we read the play aloud, some for the first time, tonight. It's going to be a challenge: the middle act (of three) has a lot of very physical humor, and there are a lot of lines that get repeated, sometimes with only slight changes. But it should be fun, and if it comes off well, it'll be a really great show.