Broken Rehearsals
N her lecture to London University students on the filming of Julius Caesar, in which she took the part of Caesar’s wife Calpurnia, Greer Garson touched on a point that has often disturbed me, namely, that in the usual Hollywood method of production there is no- continuity of rehearsal. An actor may speak a few words before coming into a room and complete his sentence six months later when all the shots of the interior of the room are taken. In Julius Caesar the rehearsals were continuous. The actors had a chance to "live" into their parts, to feel the developing psychology of the play and hence to impose on it the unity and individuality we might expect from this approach. Whether the film has proved this point sufficiently to influence Hollywood’s methods is more than one can tell. On the face of it, it is not the sort of teaching which should need driving home to people engaged in any kind of dramatic work, and as Greer Garson herself said in her 3ZB talk the actors in other pictures do find the going extremely difficult for this very reason.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 774, 21 May 1954, Page 12
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192Broken Rehearsals New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 774, 21 May 1954, Page 12
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