You have been selected to be a student director for the first time for an upcoming spring production. The play that you have been chosen to direct is a dramatic play with deep meanings and complex characters, and you will have four weeks of rehearsal in which to prepare the production. As a first-time director, you are unsure of how to begin your rehearsals after casting and you ask the theatre instructor what would be the best course of action for the first rehearsal. They will most likely suggest that the first rehearsal should be for

A. blocking the movements of the actors.
B. table work with the cast.
C. integrating all technical aspects of the production together.
D. none of these choices

Answer: B