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I have the lead role in a play, and i need advice on how to memorize my lines! any ideas? Thanks soo much!
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I've been in theater B4, and I know wut it's like 2 feel pressured to memorize lines! What I did, is I look at the lines, read one part over REALLY slow, then do it again and get faster, keep looking at the page! then ook up at a wall and do the same thing once or twice. You can use sentences, or paragraqphs, whatever is better for you!!
Good Luck!
XOXO
Rebecca
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Take little parts at a time. Memorize your lines in chunks so that you don't have a whole lot to memorize all of a sudden. Also, try working on them with a friend. Practice a lot. Repetition is key.
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It depends how long your lines are. For short lines, repeating them out loud and having another person to read the other part so you learn your cues is great. Longer sections of speech are harder. I find writing things out very quickly several times in a row helps comit them to memory. Another technique is to draw your speech, or at least add little pictures as prompts (for example, if you were trying to memorize 'shall I compare thee to a summers day? You are more lovely and more temperate', you might draw a sun and a little thumbs up sign)). When you're running through something, pictures are often great aids, so if you train you brain to associate pictures with your speech you'll find it easier to memorize the whole thing. Good luck with your play!
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say them "OVER AND OVER AGAIN" read em' out load :) go0d luck w the play
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You could try readng them out loud, or even writing them down because seeing them may help you remember...
You could get someone to hold your script and make you recite them... that will take practise but you will be forced to remember each line .
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Hey~the thing that I do is just repeat them over and over and over. It takes awhile but it gets it done!
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Write your lines down on paper. Most of time what ever u write u seem to remember. Try it and see it can't hurt
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When I was in my school play, I used to read through a section of the script every night before I went to sleep. The next night, I would read the next bit of the script AND the section I had read the previous night, and so on and so on. Eventually I would be reading through the entire script every night and I knew all the lines off by heart. Trust me, this works.
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Read it over a few times and look at your scrip. Then after doing that try not to look at it as much as you can. take it step by step. try memorizing it one part at a time. good luck
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Read over one line. Cover it up, and say it outloud. Then, look over it again. Next, look over the following line, cover it up, say it outloud. Then, add in the first line you went over before it. Keep doing this, for about 3 days, and you'll have it done. It also helps to get a friend to help.
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I'm not really an expert on memorizing lines, but I when I'm memorizing music, I go line by line (or in your case, sentence by sentence). Repeat the first sentence over and over until you think you've got it down, then move on to the next one. After you think you have that one, try saying the first and second together...and so on. Good luck =)
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say your lines over and over again till u get them right it has worked for many times.
or you could also get a family member to help u
for example; family member says the line before your line.
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I'm in theatre also and i have that problem a lot. Just get your friends or family to help you with. Give them a copy of the script and just run through the lines with them while you still have the script, then get rid of your script and have them read the other parts. Thats just one way of going about the problem. Hope i helped and leave me a message in my inbox if you have anymore questions! :) Break a leg :P
~*~*~Ren~*~*~
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Practice, practice, and PRACTICE!
Every chance you have, practice a line or two. If your mom is driving and y'all are stopped at a stop light, PRACTICE. Set aside a set amount of time every day and/or night for you to soley practice your lines. Before you go to bed practice. Waiting at the dentist...practice. Then take like a day break and see what you can do strickly from memory and then get to practing some more. Also, try writing out the lines. Your brains absorbs more things by practice also. Good luck, and oh yeah, don't forget to practice!! :)
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im an actress so i would no. take it 1 line at a time. read each line two times each. then say it out loud. o and practice in front of the mirror. GOOD LUCK!
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Read the lines about 8 times(average person can learn something if they say/read/ or do it 8 times) and close your eyes and try to say it without any help. or ask your parents, family, friends, to help you..
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