Millie Week 7 Mon 15 - Wed 17 2011

I hate learning lines. Some people are able to scan a script once and be word perfect ten minutes later. I've actually seen this happen, when in a production of A Christmas Carol, the Ghost of Christmas Past fell ill on the last night. Amazingly, a friend who had turned up to see the show that night locked himself in the green room, learned his part, and played the part perfectly less than an hour later. Tim Boorman, wherever you are now, you're a marvel.

I'm not like him. It takes a good week of pacing in circles and mumbling to myself before my lines sink in. Especially if they're lines I've written for myself.