NOTES!!!!!!! :)

The Importance of Being Earnest Performance Notes

4.29.2011

Actors- the way to read the note is Actor name-page number.line number. Line number means lines down the page- not just actor lines down the page. So, Jack 5.8 refers to the line on page five, "Bunburyist? What on earth do you mean by a Bunburyist?". Jack says it, it's on page five, and it's the eighth line from the top.

Act One

Ross, good job holding the plate stand steady!

Lane- can we see more of the reason you put the plate under the table? We got a sense you were putting it under for some reason, but we didn't get that you were doing it to make sure Algy didn't eat it.

Lane, You hid the sandwiches- so why'd you sound so happy to give them to the man you know i only going to eat them and blame you for their absence?

Algy- you kept petting your shoe- was it scuffed? It drew attention and made us wonder what was wrong with them rather than listening to you.

Algernon- articulate, articulate, articulate!

Tech- the masking needs to cover the trees for act three. they are popping out from behind the curtains

Algernon- thank you for pausing for laughs

Jack-5.8

Jack, skipped from 5.13 to 6.4. LOOK OVER THIS SCENE AGAIN. BOTH OF YOU. The rest of the play is hard to make sense of if we don't know what relation Cecily is to Jack- and that happens to be what you missed.

Algernon 6.13

Jack be careful of cutting algernon's lines off- every once in awhile you would cut in before he finished and part of the line was lost.

Algernon have a bolder fake realization that there are no cucumber sandwiches

Lady Bracknell, be careful of taking to many dramatic pauses

Clarence enunciate your lines, we are losing some words

Tech, when we first start the show try to expose more of the border

Nick, be careful of the blooping sounds

Jack pause for laughs especially with gwendolen

Gwendolen Great physicalization, as always!

Lady Bracknell- good reaction to the proposal

Jack, take a quick pause before you admit you smoke so you can think about whether you should tell her or not.

Jack, you need to enunciate at all times we lost "who"

Jack have a later and bolder realization at "you don't suppose Gwen will be like her mother in about 150 years?"

Jack, be more upset about not being able to marry Gwendolen, right now it looks like your are saying "whatever, no biggy"

Jack stop reclining away from algernon, it looks like you are hiding from him

Algernon pause for laughs!

Algernon, talk slower. You are tripping over your own words, so we cannot understand some of them, and others are lost entirely.

Jack talk to us not the back of the stage, or we won't be able to hear a word you say!

Act Two

Cecily enunciate

Hair, Prism's hair look good

Chasuble don't cut prism off- make sure she gets the full line out before you begin yours.

Cecily don't say your horrid line till you sit down

Matt, black socks and, LOUDER LOUDER LOUDER

Ross and Matt, please practice with the curtains

Hunter, are you going to be our footman tomorrow night? Have you tried on Matt's suit?

Jack, great fake mourning. Very good acting here.

Chasuble 27.5,you forgot the words and then said other mostly nonsensical words far too quickly.

Jack say "it would be childish" louder.

Jack the bottom of your jacket looks dusty, talk to costume crew or don't put your jacket on the ground

Prism, be prepared to pause for laughs

Jack good disgusted face when you shake hands with algernon

Jack good release of the hand shake

Jack good pouty quality you are putting into your lines- we feel what you feel

Algernon, wait a few more seconds to realize that Cecily is there

Matt, enter a few seconds sooner to say the dogcart is there- they (Algy and Cecily) were left staring at each other with nothing to say for a short time.

Matt, act more annoyed that you have to re pack the luggage and annoyed you have to tell the dog cart to wait

Cecily, you missed "but I forgave you by the week was out"

Algernon you skipped a few lines on page 33 when you tried to cover for her forgotten line. Both of you need to glance over this scene once again to make sure you can cover without the awkward, dragging silence and skip down the page.

Algernon you said "couldn't you love if my name was Earnest." you should have said Algernon

Cecily, not impeStuous, it should be impetuous

Gwendolen and Cecily, play with a little awkwardness when you sit down after first meeting

Hair, Gwendolen's hair looked lopsided

Matt, make sure the table cloth is straight, it need up crooked, with more clothe on the left side than the right.

Matt, set up the table so the tea and sugar can be easily reach by Cecily, since she is the one who must serve the food. I suggest putting the plate stand in the back of the table, centered, and then arranging the tea things symmetrically in front of it so both girls have easy access to all the implements and room for a teacup.

Cecily, put one thing of sugar in Gwendolen's cup then look at her and put in more

Gwendolen separate the moment

Algernon, don't look at Gwendolen until good heavens gwendolen line- you need to pretend you haven't noticed her until that point.

Jack PROJECT!!!!!

Gwendolen and Cecily, the stop, look, and continue storming off is really funny

Jack Posture- stand tall in your own family.

Jack and Algernon, the I love her, I adore her worked well

Jack don't cut algernon off

Jack don't talk until you eat. and remember, also don't talk while you eat.

Jack and ALgernon no ghetto women head bobble things, it is leaning towards that

Jack your physicalization looks a little off- you seem scared of Algy, in your own garden. You aren't scared, your annoyed. VERY annoyed. And feeling as if it's all rather a mess and seemingly hopeless.

Act Three

Gwendolen and Cecily you are still storming off when the act begins

Jack don't block Algernon at the beginning of the act

Algernon, don't let Jack upstage you

Algernon 46.2 you forgot you line

Lady Bracknell good cover

Jakc grand daughter sounded like granduler

Lady Bracknelll don't say uh

Jack 48.13 you said yesterday instead of this afternoon

CHasuble you need to pick up cues, good entrance though

Chasuble refuted not refufed

Lady bracknell, bolder physicalization when you realize that he said prism

Lady Bracknell, you forgot to say prism the second time in " Prism, Prism where is that baby"

Lady bracknell 52.8 you missed half the line

Props THANK YOU SO MUCH for opening th eland bag

Prism push off Jack from hugging you

Jack when you are talking about women being chasised talke to everybody not prism

Jack faster more energy with Algernon being your brother

Jack, make a deliberate choice to call LB Aunt Augusta

Jack pronounce the Army lists

Jack don't move until the lights are completely out.