Italian rehearsal

English

Noun

Italian rehearsal (plural Italian rehearsals)

1. A rehearsal where the actors read their lines at high speed, without the accompanying acting.
   • 2011, William B. Davis, Where There's Smoke...: Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man, a Memoir:

     I have never been a fan of the Italian rehearsal, where actors run lines at double time. Saying lines without thinking is a pitfall actors need to avoid, not seek out.