Planning, Scripting & Ideas
Table read
Also called: read-through, reading it aloud
A script that looks fine on the page can sound stilted the moment it leaves your mouth. Say it out loud. That is the only reliable way to find those lines. The name comes from television, where the cast sits round a table and reads the whole thing through. Solo, it takes ten minutes: read at performance pace, mark every stumble, and rewrite those bits the way you accidentally said them. Text-to-speech does the same job if you would sooner listen than perform.