A collection of pages with lines for a theatrical production; the script purports to be the final authority when there is a question at rehearsal.
Nevertheless, changes are
made to the script right up to dress rehearsal, and it is not uncommon to find as many as half a dozen scripts on the director's
desk: "
Two Top Hats and a
Spy", "Top Hats revised", "Top Hats: latest edition", "Top Hats: no deaths", and "Top Hats: Collector's Edition".
Director: Do you have your script?
Actor: Script! Yes! ..... No, I left it at home.
Director: That was the third
copy I've given you. You ate the last
one.