The secret revealed

How do you learn your lines? Just graft alright? No tips and tricks. Just go over and over them saying them to yourself or anyone else who is kind enough to indulge you until they stick. Terribly valuable period of rehearsal as you are getting intimate with the writer properly for the first time. Feel them in your mouth. Taste the surprises. Ask questions. Meditate.

One of our cast uses a well worn postcard of a young Marlon Brando (his benchmark) to cover his lines as he works down the page.

I am actually going on my bike. And taking sandwiches.

I am the old man of the cast. Aaagh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But there is a lot of love in the room.