run lines
English
Verb
run lines (third-person singular simple present runs lines, present participle running lines, simple past ran lines, past participle run lines)
- (acting) To practice or memorize one's lines from a script outside of rehearsal, usually with another person.
- 2002, Kenneth Anderson, Good Grief! Using the Grief Sheet to Improve Community Theatre Production: Telling the Story Better Than It Has Ever Been Told, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 274:
- Reporters: When you're not on stage, get together and run lines. As Sheriff Hartman can tell you, ... That group got together regularly to run lines and had great success. ... Using the Grief Sheet to Improve Community Theatre.
- 2014 October 13, C. S. Smith, The New York Times Theater Reviews 1997-1998, Routledge, →ISBN, page 51:
- In "Barrymore," Mr. Luce imagines that the actor, one month before his death, has taken over a Broadway theater for an evening to run lines from "Richard III," in anticipation of possibly recreating the role that provided him with his […]