Learning lines for a play? Any tips? Its The Crucible...??

Question:Read the script through twice before beginning to memorize your lines. This will make the characters, situations and plot very familiar to you, so that when you begin to learn lines you will understand who your character is and why s/he is about to say what s/he says. Knowing the character really makes it easy to learn lines, because you begin to think like him/her.

Then begin at the beginning, learning one or two sentences at a time. Block out everything below those lines with a piece of paper. Memorize those two sentences, and then go on to the next one or two.

Before going on to the third sentence or pair of sentences, review the ones you have learned in order once or twice. Cover your lines with the piece of paper, sliding it down only enough to see your cue line. Then say your line OUT LOUD. If you get it right, go on. If not, look at it on the page, say it out loud correctly, and go back to the beginning and try again until you have all the lines you have learned so far correct before learning any new ones.

After you have learned all the lines in an entire scene so that you are always correct when practicing with the covering paper, get a friend to run the lines with you, and try to do them perfectly. Tell your friend to be sure and let you know if you make even a small mistake.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Read the script through twice before beginning to memorize your lines. This will make the characters, situations and plot very familiar to you, so that when you begin to learn lines you will understand who your character is and why s/he is about to say what s/he says. Knowing the character really makes it easy to learn lines, because you begin to think like him/her.

Then begin at the beginning, learning one or two sentences at a time. Block out everything below those lines with a piece of paper. Memorize those two sentences, and then go on to the next one or two.

Before going on to the third sentence or pair of sentences, review the ones you have learned in order once or twice. Cover your lines with the piece of paper, sliding it down only enough to see your cue line. Then say your line OUT LOUD. If you get it right, go on. If not, look at it on the page, say it out loud correctly, and go back to the beginning and try again until you have all the lines you have learned so far correct before learning any new ones.

After you have learned all the lines in an entire scene so that you are always correct when practicing with the covering paper, get a friend to run the lines with you, and try to do them perfectly. Tell your friend to be sure and let you know if you make even a small mistake.

Rehearse!!!!! I can do and i was 9

Just keep practicing them.

Some tips you can do are:

1. Have someone run the lines with you. Give them the script, and they'll read the supporting lines and you can try to say yours from memory.

2. Read it constantly and memorize them so that you could probably say them in your sleep.

3. Make a tape recording of yourself saying your lines, so if you need to, you can improve on your volume, fluency, speed, etc.

Don't worry! You'll get those lines! It just takes some rehearsal.

Read the book, or view the movie so you know the story well first.

When my daughter was in high school she earned a part in The Fiddler on the Roof. For the first week of rehearsal all the students did was to watch the movie with their scripts in front of them. Even at home they were only allowed to study their scripts if they were watching the movie.

Once they knew their characters they were able to remember their lines a whole lot easier. At least the music/drama teacher thought so, and in regards to my daughter it did seem to make a difference.

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First take time to understand what your character is saying and why. Paraphrase each line so you make sure you have that understanding. Then look to the script and determine why your character says that line when they say it. Make sure you associate the essential message in the cue with the essential response of your character. After that, study the actual lines written and see why the playwright has chosen to express the lines in that way.

If you've done this groundwork, you have the foundation to quickly build the lines into your automatic response mechanisms, which is what you want so you can focus on the action of the play rather than worrying about your lines during the play.