Read!

Throughs!

Yep, after you get cast and all you will have a read-through. but we already knew we were cast :)

Read through's are boring, tedious, annoying times but luckily you only have one or two. They are very important however, as it lets an actor ask questions on the script before rehearsals start.

I want to stress on asking questions. For anything you don't understand except small words and things you can look up later. If anything's unclear, the director will know, and if he doesn't well goody for you, you just gave him another 15 minutes of work for the night.

Now when I first ever did a read through years ago, I remember thinking "well this isn't acting"
and no, it's not acting at the core itself however as with anything, there will be times when you don't happen to like the process it will take to get you up on stage and playing the part.

What you can expect is a bunch of tired and grumpy actors sitting around bored and butt sore reading for three hours or more tapping their pencils and faking laughs here and there.

This, however, is usually not the case. It's good to expect the worst :)