Any tips for memorizing scripts?

Question

I'm not that great with memorizing, but I'm a good actress and I was just given the lead role for The Ash Girl, a play. Any advice please?

Answer 1

1. Just do it.
2. Practice out loud.
3. Pay attention to cues.
4. Learn the lines in context.
5. Split it up/ devise a schedule
6. Look for patterns
7. Make flash cards
8. Record yourself saying lines, and listen to them
9. Run lines as much as possible


Good Luck

Answer 2

Try memorizing chunks or scenes at a time, then move on when you're done. And if you can, get someone to read the other lines in the script and have you say your lines without a script, if you have extra time in between rehearsals. That really helped me.

Answer 3

i take my script EVERYWHERE with me. read it everywhere at every chance you get. by the time my show opens, my family knows my lines just as well as i do!! Always read aloud and imagine yourself in the character's shoes. Every night, go through the entire script (even if there are some scenes you are in...it still helps). ask friends to read through it with you. oh and it's easy to break the lines in groups. so, like in a scene, let's say you have a conversation with A about fish and cookies, then wiht B about clocks. Memorize the lines wiht you and A and fish. then u and A and cookies. then u and B and clocks. Hope this helps!!!!!

Answer 4

Wow congrats! If u have an apple product there is an app called line please and it definently helps, u have to enter in the script annoyingly but that helps u memorize it too, and if not, writeing it down, reading it over an over until u are very familiar with it, and having someone read lines with u is about all u can do. Good luck!

Answer 5

write to me at the aol address in my profile and I will send you two pages of info on how to be a quick study.

Answer 6

use flashcards