{"id":2215,"date":"2012-05-01T17:19:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T05:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=2215"},"modified":"2012-05-01T17:19:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T05:19:46","slug":"goodbye-my-feleni-the-first-read-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/goodbye-my-feleni-the-first-read-through\/","title":{"rendered":"GOODBYE MY FELENI:  The First Read Through"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You want names? They&#8217;re right <a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/projects\/goodbye-my-feleni\/crew\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/projects\/goodbye-my-feleni\/cast\/\">here<\/a>. &#8230; Um, yeah: more to follow, obviously.<\/p>\n<p>So, yesterday was the read-through and&#8230;.  Read-through&#8217;s are always an heady, anxious, butterflies-in-the-bowels kind of experience. You&#8217;ve just emerged into the light with a draft that you think\/hope\/pray hits the mark. You anticipate the joy of hearing your dialogue sing and await the inevitable praise to be heaped upon you from your readers.<\/p>\n<p>This read-through was no different.<\/p>\n<p>The actors reading their lines sounded nothing like the voices I&#8217;d heard when writing the script. (Disclosure:  this was a cold read.)  Holes that I thought I&#8217;d papered over sufficiently stuck out like&#8230; holes don&#8217;t stick out, really, do they? The dialogue did not sing. Arcs I thought I&#8217;d artfully sketched turned out to be just sketches waiting some proper writing to <i>define<\/i> them.<\/p>\n<p>Praise was not inevitable.  Warm supportive noises were welcomed. Carefully phrased criticism was taken on board.  No tears were shed.  No pride was swallowed.<\/p>\n<p>With an <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/open?id=0B8rwTwQycz2XRFdwMUFubDhqdFE\" target=\"_blank\">open reading<\/a> less than a fortnight away, it&#8217;s about tightening and bridging and articulating and&#8230; writing.<\/p>\n<p>Development continues apace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You want names? They&#8217;re right here and here. &#8230; Um, yeah: more to follow, obviously. So, yesterday was the read-through and&#8230;. Read-through&#8217;s are always an heady, anxious, butterflies-in-the-bowels kind of experience. You&#8217;ve just emerged into the light with a draft that you think\/hope\/pray hits the mark. You anticipate the joy of hearing your dialogue sing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/goodbye-my-feleni-the-first-read-through\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;GOODBYE MY FELENI:  The First Read Through&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,23],"tags":[244],"class_list":["post-2215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scriptwriting","category-theatre","tag-goodbye-my-feleni"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}