I should have known not to listen to him when he arrived at rehearsals with his own canvas chair.
One BBC insider said: "It's no secret that big media organisations carry out rehearsals for how they would cover the death of a major public figure.
During rehearsals, he's careful to insist that, within the limits of period etiquette, his courtiers and peasants behave like real individuals, rather than ballet ciphers.
During rehearsals, the cast invented The Really Sound Party, a fictional political party which inspired McCarthy to enter politics for real.
It was Julia [Roberts] who mentioned James Taylor in rehearsals so we used it.
He worked with the estimated 10,000 volunteers who formed the show's cast – the director famously attending every one of hundreds of hours of rehearsals, in the car park of the abandoned Ford plant in Dagenham, among other places – including a hardcore of serial Olympic ceremony volunteers, people who had taken part in openings in Sydney or Athens.
In early rehearsals, you need to be on hand to clarify the intention of your characters and plot – even mundane things like pronunciation.
"Strategically, AudioBoo will get big by creating lots of niches, like news, radio and music," said Rock. "We'll never be entirely a music app, but if you think about the social audio around music, like rehearsals or backstage, that's an interesting business model".
Photos surfaced to reveal that Chris, Jake, James, Tom, Reece, Charlie, Barclay and Casey had to wear name signs during rehearsals to help Louis Walsh recall who they were.
Mitchell, whose productions speak to both traditions, insists the films in her plays should look like cinema – hence the detailed rehearsals.
Forbidden Zone's rehearsals suggests a director not so much running away from British theatre as trying to rethink its traditions – which makes it seem slightly absurd that fans of her work now have to travel to Germany to see it.
