Preparing for acting and directing
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- Michael
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I prepare differently for both things. When I’m acting I’m not really allowed to direct if somebody else is directing. It’s not really very kosher, so I tend to try and put that to the back of my mind, and just prepare on a sort of character level.
When I’m directing I tend to prepare everything so that by the time we come to the first day of rehearsal I know exactly what it’s going to look like from the beginning to the end, and the only thing I don’t know is how the actors are going to take, or where they are going to take their characterisations, but I do know where I would like them to go.
So I’m not one of these directors that makes it up on the day. Macbeth for example we rehearsed in three weeks only, and from the very first rehearsal everybody had to know their lines, otherwise it’s a waste of time. The way I work is very rapid, for me line-learning is homework, and they need to have those lines so that we can have no scripts in our hands and we can actually get the thing moving, so that’s how I work yeah.