Drama Term Tuesday #41
/Memorising
The act of committing a text to memory so that an actor can deliver the story fully and accurately every performance. Almost always actors need to memorise their lines and moves in a play. They do so in a range of ways.
learning the ideas and their interconnectedness, the story of the lines;
saying the lines aloud rather than in the head associating the line with the specific movements of the action;
associating and remembering the feelings that the words and images create, not just the words; actioning the words
seeing all of the lines in a scene as one whole with its beginning section, middle section, and concluding section and its dramatic progression;
figuring out what the character is actually saying when he/she says what he/she says;
using mnemonic devices to help remember lists, such as anagrams, rhymes, silly sentences etc;
making a tape of the lines that can be listened to repeatedly.
