Sally Reid Blogs about learning lines:
The play is very intense at times and only having 2 characters spanning 8 years of their time together in London means there is an awful lot of words! It’s definitely not a 9-5 job! At the start of the first week, I very quickly organised a routine for learning which only included 2 other activities; eating and sleeping. Sometimes you can’t do any further work on a scene in rehearsals until you are off book for it and Kenny has been very supportive of that, not bombarding us with too much scene and action work too early on. It’s a tedious process at times but when you know all your lines and a scene flows for the first time it’s extremely exciting. I like to know every page inside out before going onstage, all the external things like light, sound, costume, real props can sometimes throw you off course and you can forget what it is you’re saying.