Innaugural Table Read

Last evening, The Script Department had our very first table read. What a smashing success it was! We had six actors and the Wave-inatrix was the narrator. The writer set up the scene for all of us, with the logline and the intro to the pages that were read and then afterwards, we had a Q&A, with the actors asking questions about the characters, the dialogue and the backstory. And the writer was able to ask the actors, from their perspective, how they felt about the pages themselves.

There were some lines of dialogue that the writer grimly crossed out after hearing them read aloud, and she later said she plans to get rid of a lot of extraneous sluglines and action lines because they slowed the story down too much. The actors passed out headshots and enthusiastically agreed to come to future table reads and the writer emphatically said every writer should have this experience!

And that, dear Wavers, is the plan - again, if you live in the Los Angeles area or can come here for a free table read, please do let us know. We plan to do about one each month - wrangling actors and schedules takes a bit of doing - but you could be next. So if you are interested, go to the SDwebsite and clink on the link for table reads and proceed from there.

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