Any ideas? I'm working on memorizing just fifteen lines of Shakespeare, but my brain is not cooperating.
2006-10-16 15:33:03 · 5 answers · asked by killerqueen040 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Performing Arts
Write it down a few times. Learn them by sections. Memorize a few lines at a time.
2006-10-16 15:40:48 · answer #1 · answered by Snuz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I played Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and it took me a week or 2 to memorize it (I practiced 3 hours a day). Lawrence Olivier (shakeperean actor) did almost all the leads in Shakespeare plays. He even did Hamlet, who had 6300 lines. So if we can do it, so can you. Just do it slowly, it's just like memorizing a song.
2006-10-16 22:40:40 · answer #2 · answered by daydream♥believer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One trick: memorize the last line, then the last two lines, then the last three, etc., working your way back to the beginning.
That way, when you do start from the beginning, you get more confident as you go on.
2006-10-16 22:42:24 · answer #3 · answered by banjuja58 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tape record yourself doing the whole show, and saying all of your lines, or even someone else saying all of your lines. Then put it on your ipod. When you are more comfortable with the show, say all of your cue lines, and other characters lines, but leave yours out. Leave enough space for you to say your line. Now stick this on a cd/ipod, and fill your lines.
2006-10-17 10:48:02 · answer #4 · answered by rache 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Say one line until you now it , then the next and 1st and then etc...
2006-10-16 22:47:05 · answer #5 · answered by DANCER12 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋