We did a staged reading with a text that we needed to return pristine if we planned on not spending dollars.
Normally, I’d mark a text up. Note some accents, some places to breathe, highlight my lines, etc – but money’s tight and I don’t need a tiny folio version of this particular play. So I didn’t. Mark it.
And I lost my place many times. My eyes glazed over as soon as performance energy took me over. I could have used all the help I could have gotten.
So next time, dollars aside, I’ll mark the play.