Accidental Prompting

[deird_lj]

Play rehearsal last night.

Unfortunately, I am very good at learning lines. Not just mine - everyone's. And unfortunately, I am extremely bad at monitoring the stuff I'm saying, or stopping it from coming out of my mouth.

So, when someone on stage hesitates, I call out their next line. It's not even a conscious action on my part - it's just instinctive.
But I'm not supposed to be talking at all while people are rehearsing scenes. I'm certainly not supposed to be prompting them!
It's just so hard not to...

Comments

[spuffyduds.livejournal.com]

Hee! I have a couple of times coached or co-coached one or the other of my son's DI teams. (Destination Imagination--it's sort of competitive improv, crossed with the sort of corporate team-building type exercise where you try to build the tallest tower out of toothpicks and marshmallows.) And during the improv section, they're handed a prompt, given three minutes or so to discuss it, and then have about five minutes to perform. During which the coach cannot do ANY prompting--including involuntary "c'mon, c'mon" gestures to indicate that they're running out of time.

I actually, literally SAT ON MY HANDS.

Maybe you could hold a pen in your teeth or something?

[deird1]

Good plan!

Last night I did actually slap my hand over my mouth a couple of times...