In theatre rehearsals, actors can occasionally be seen getting stuck in the play text, which is called blanking. To overcome such textual difficulties and continue with the given text, a prompter can verbalize the line in question, thus contributing to an actor’s word search by prompting. The paper focuses on interactional practices by which prompters and actors interactionally resolve blanking situations. This study’s data comprises a case collection of 67 prompting situations, which are taken from a 200-h video corpus of a rehearsal process at a professional theatre. These cases demonstrate how theatre professionals organize prompting situations and how they negotiate/sanction prompting actions such as when there was no blanking but a dramatic pause or when the dramatic performance is interrupted due to a missing prompt. In addition to the audiovisual recordings, eye tracking data of the person prompting is also used to describe the coordination of the visual resources in the context of multimodal interaction analysis. The analysis suggests that prompting and blanking persons interactively resolve blankings with the help of verbal and visual markers.

在剧院排练中，偶尔可以看到演员卡在剧本中，这被称为空白。为了克服这样的文本困难并继续给定的文本，提示者可以用语言表达有问题的台词，从而通过提示有助于演员的单词搜索。本文侧重于提示者和参与者交互解决空白情况的交互实践。本研究的数据包括 67 个提示情境的案例集，这些情境取自专业剧院排练过程的 200 小时视频语料库。这些案例展示了剧院专业人员如何组织提示情况以及他们如何协商/批准提示行为，例如当没有消隐但出现戏剧性停顿时，或者当戏剧表演因缺少提示而中断时。除了视听记录外，提示人的眼动数据也用于描述多模态交互分析中视觉资源的协调。分析表明，提示和空白的人在口头和视觉标记的帮助下以交互方式解决空白。