{"id":14770,"date":"2013-12-05T17:52:24","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T22:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2013\/12\/05\/14770.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T19:06:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T00:06:25","slug":"it-begins-and-then-begins-agai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2013\/12\/05\/it-begins-and-then-begins-agai\/","title":{"rendered":"It begins! And then begins again!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well, and we&#8217;ve started rehearsals for <cite>Noises Off<\/cite>. It&#8217;s a strange play to begin rehearsals for&#8212;the first rehearsal, of course, is a read-through, and reading through this play is not like reading through other plays. There are fifty pages in the middle where dialogue is the titular noises off, that is, heard but not seen. The stuff that the audience is seeing is happening silently, and is thus pretty much ignored by the read-through.\n<p>The other thing that&#8217;s unusual about a read-through for <cite>Noises Off<\/cite> is that it&#8217;s the funniest play ever written, and now and then the proceedings come to a halt whilst the actors regain their composure.\n<p>What is usual, what&#8217;s pretty much the same about a first rehearsal read-through of any production is the murky business of trying to figure out if the production will be any good. I am optimistic about this one. Oh, I&#8217;m a little concerned about the accents&#8212;we&#8217;re doing it with English Accents, which is great for me as I can show off two of them, but tricky for those who don&#8217;t have accents in their pockets. And for me, at any rate, weak accents are a huge marker of Bad Theater&#8212;it may be totally unfair, but a weak accent just makes me cringe in a way that cheap sets or lighting don&#8217;t.\n<p>Still and all, we&#8217;re weeks and weeks away from the show. Which is the point, really, about that first read-through.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger believes that the funniest journey begins with a single slip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theeyater"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16634,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14770\/revisions\/16634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}