Need some tips...please?

Question:I have been offered the role of Mari in "The rise and fall of little voice" and upon reading it the role is really involved. Mari spends a lot of time talking with very long monologues and the lines I have to learn are beyond what I had expected. I also have to learn a cockney accent. I have been doing theater for 15 years or so and I have found it is just not as easy to learn lines like I used to. I have also been away from significant roles for a number of years only having bit parts so I need some tips on how to learn lines again and where I might get a good source of the cockney accent like tv shows that might be useful to watch.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I have been offered the role of Mari in "The rise and fall of little voice" and upon reading it the role is really involved. Mari spends a lot of time talking with very long monologues and the lines I have to learn are beyond what I had expected. I also have to learn a cockney accent. I have been doing theater for 15 years or so and I have found it is just not as easy to learn lines like I used to. I have also been away from significant roles for a number of years only having bit parts so I need some tips on how to learn lines again and where I might get a good source of the cockney accent like tv shows that might be useful to watch.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance.

well... there's this piece of advice I'd like to call the 2By2.... You take a section of the script and you say it twice and then you write it twice.... keep doing this over and over till you have it memorized... and it's not enough to just memorize, you have to experience them in the moment.

also taping the script onto a voice recorder wouldn't hurt either.... i find it very helpful!

As for cockney accents... no TV shows i know about... But google it and you might be able to find a page that tells you exactly which letters and vowels that need to be changed, so you won't be stuck memorizing how to say every single word in the English language.

Congrats on the part and Good Luck!

Write all your lines out on paper as many time as you can.That used to help me allot when I did plays.Break a leg!!!

I always tried to sing the monologue and then keep it in my head :)

once a Thespian,always a Thespian,go and do what you like doing,have a bit of faith in yourself, how did you do it when you use to do the bigger roles,do the same.