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Question: Tips for learning my lines off a script!?
what are some good tips on learning 29 lines for my charachter to say in a play im doing at school!? how can i remember them and stuff thanksWww@QuestionHome@Com


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Well this is what my director told me to do!. Memorize your lines in neutral (meaning with no emotion or acting)!. Trust me you will feel like you want to do emotions but don't!. If you memeorize it this way it will make it easy for you to react to what ever happenes with the characters you are talking with on stage!. Because if someone says a line and they shout it at you, and you have memorize that line in a sexy way!. It would look silly!. The audience will be like what the heck, why is she being sexy when that person is shouting at her!. My director says that you should always have a natural reaction!. As if you had never had this happen to before!. Always be honest, as he says!. Otherwise it will not look real and just look like you memorize lines!. It will also cause you do it on stage and then you will never have anything new and different each time you say those lines!. I learn this the hard way when I was on stage and I had memorized a certain in a certain way!. And my partner gave me an emotion that she had never done before!. She was very sweet to me when normally she was nasty and cruel!. She was trying what's called a new tactic!. I was stunned I didn't know what to do!. I just stood there because I didn't know how to react to her because the way I had memorized my line wouldn't work with the way she had spoke to me!. I know this is a very long response, but trust me when I found this out it really helped!. It may just seem like 29 lines but you need to act as if it is a really big part, if you do you will stand out!. also I tried this before with my sister and her boyfriend!. I had them say the lines in netural as I recorded them and didn't say mine I gave a few seconds for my lines to be said and then they continued on!. Later I went back and started to memorize my lines!. Saying my lines where the silence was!. This can help also!. If that doesn't work this another thing my director told me to do!. Put a piece of paper over your lines!. Then look at the person before your lines and say the line, look and see if you get it right!. If you did move on to the next line, if not start over, even if you have gotten all the way to the bottom and you mess up, start over at the top!. I know it sounds very tetidus, and I was skeptical, but it really does work!. I really hope this helped and again sorry my answer is so long!. Break a leg! And have fun with it!Www@QuestionHome@Com

Use different ways to practice, have a friend or family member read lines with you as the other characters you are not playing!. also read them several times throughout the day, when you wake up, at lunch, before you go to bed, also remember in production it isn't just remembering your lines but also your cue's for your lines, those are very important as well!. I hope this helps you out, it worked for me when I was in school acting in plays!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

The lady who did Lamp Chop on television used to record her lines on a tape recorder and play it back at night while she slept!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Teach yourself to have a photographic memory :LWww@QuestionHome@Com

Read and re-read!. Learn the last word that someone else says before your line!.Www@QuestionHome@Com