barnett 6 May 2011
we’ve come to the point in rehearsals where i just HAVE to know my lines in order to be able to move on. it’s PAINFUL trying to learn them though. Sam Beckett is a bit of a pervert when it comes to changing a seeming repetition just slightly enough for it to mess you up as you approach it. every so often our director, the wonderful jonathan humphreys, reads me a piece of an actor’s recollection of performing Beckett or working with him and it’s usually just how i’m feeling and i suddenly don’t feel quite so alone…though, in fairness, i WILL be alone each night trying to remember what comes next. i fear i may not have enough brain cells left to hold what i need to hold and unleash on the good people of Sheffield each night…SO, all seems to be going to ‘plan’ then for this paint in preparations…
