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Position:Home>Theater & Acting> How do i memorize all these lines, and also what is the best way to get into chaQuestion: How do i memorize all these lines, and also what is the best way to get into character!? I have been selected to perform in a play next semester My Children! My Africa! by Anthol Fugard!. I got the lead role (the professor Mr!. M) and I am worried, because they are so many long monologues—like really long!. What is the best way to memorize all these lines, and also what is the best way to get into character—I am a black South African teacher during the apartheid in 1984!. Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Hey, congrats!. Well, most actors will tell you that that is actually the easiest part!. When I auditioned for a performing arts high school, I was told about my audition three days before it was to happen and I didn't even have monologues picked out!. Then I suddenly had three days to memorize two 1 1/2 minute monologues, which I did!. Memorization comes from repetition!. Read it over and over, identify with it's words and meaning, place yourself in the time and place, imagine what it would be like to live in a place where there are places you are not permitted to go and areas you are not permitted to leave or to enter because you're black!. Imagine that you face imprisonment or death if you do!. Read one sentence!. Memorize the first sentence!. Add the next!. Do this out loud where you will not be disturbed!. Eventually, you will find that they become more and more your words and less and less the writer's!. If I can help further, or with any specific problems, let me know!. Email me at soaring_ever_higher at yahoo dot com (trying to make it a little more challenging for spammers)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com one of my classmates chose a monologue from that play for her monologue assignment!. the best way is to say the lines aloud over and over and over!. if you get sick of hearing them, that's a good thing!. get someone to prompt you- have them say the other character's lines, and memorize that way!. break a leg!Www@QuestionHome@Com Contact me and I will send you my three page article on how to learn lines!. You don't have to worry about getting into character, the playwright has taken care of the charactere!. What you need to do is to be the character by no breaking your concentraction on stage and by reacting to the stimuli in each scene with the lines supplied by the author!. Do not pretend or act!. Be honest in your response and react!Www@QuestionHome@Com Try learning your lines and moving at the same time!. Hold your lines in front of you so you can see them and act out the monologue while moving!. You'll gain muscle memory which will trigger your mind and you'll remember your lines!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |