Should our amateur play keep the shopping-list line I said by accident?
Funny'We've lost the milk, the eggs and a giant radish,' I announced.
The line was meant to be, 'We've lost everything.' I had blanked during our amateur play's rehearsal and glanced at the shopping reminder I'd accidentally tucked behind my prop note. The cast laughed. Our writer and director, Beth, laughed too.
Afterwards she asked me to go back to the original line. It's the moment the characters realise their journey has failed. Another actor said the radish was the funniest thing we'd done all evening and that we should keep it. Two people agreed.
I like getting a laugh, and now I'm tempted to repeat it at the next rehearsal. Beth says she'd rather work on the scene she wrote than redesign it around my shopping. Do I push once more for the funny version, or accept that an excellent accidental radish may belong somewhere outside this play?